ou\n ou\n a conjunction indicating that something follows from another necessarily; (others regard the primary force of the particle as confirmatory or continuative, rather than illative; cf. Passow, or Liddell and Scott, under the word; K?hner, sec. 508, 1 ii., p. 707ff; B?umlein, p. 173ff; Kr?ger, sec. 69, 52; Donaldson, p. 571; Rost in a program Ueber Ableitung, as above, p. 2; Klotz, p. 717; Hartung ). Hence, it is used in drawing a conclusion and in connecting sentences together logically, then, therefore, accordingly, consequently, these things being so ((Klotz, Rost, others, have wished to derive the word from the neuter participle o[n (cf. o[ntw"); but see B?umlein or K?hner, as above); cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 53, 8): ; (since persecutions are not to be dreaded, and consequently furnish no excuse for denying me (cf. Winer's Grammar, 455 (424))); ; ; ; (kaiv uJmei'" ou\n, and ye accordingly, i. e. `since, as is plain from my case, sons follow the example of their fathers'; Jesus says this in sorrowful irony (Winer's Grammar, 455 (424))); (since the office of the traitor Judas must be conferred on another); ; ; ; (since I hold a father's place among you); ; , and many other examples As respects details, notice that it stands a. in exhortations (to show what ought now to be done by reason of what has been said), equivalent to wherefore (our transitional therefore): ; ; ; ; , (R G L marginal reading Tr marginal reading); ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ,; ; ; ; ; ; (G L T Tr WH); , , and often; nu'n ou\n, now therefore, . b. in questions, then, therefore (Latin igitur); a. when the question is, what follows or seems to follow from what has been said: ; (Winer's Grammar, 455 (424)); ; ; ,; ; tiv ou\n ejrou'men; ; ; ; tiv ou\n fhmiv; ; tiv ou\n; what then? i. e. how then does the matter stand? (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 64, 2 a.), (here WH marginal reading punct. tiv ou\n suv;) ; ; ; also tiv ou\n ejstin; (what is it then?) ; <<ref:BHS/GNT_1Co 14:15$$1 Cor. 14:15>