ouj ouj before a consonant, oujk before a vowel with a smooth breathing, and oujc before an aspirated vowel; but sometimes in the best manuscripts oujc occurs even before a smooth breathing; accordingly, L T WH marginal reading have adopted oujc ijdouv, ; L T oujc !Ioudai>kw'", (see WH, Introduction, sec. 409); L oujc ojlivgo", ; oujc hjgavphsan, ; and contrariwise oujk before an aspirate, as oujk e{sthken, T; (oujk e{neken, T); (oujk eu|ron, ; (oujk uJpavrcei, ) in manuscript a (also C*; cf. the Alexandrian LXX manuscript in 1 Esdr. ,; ; , )); cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 5, 1 d. 14; Buttmann, 7; (A. V. Sch?tz, Hist. Alphab. Art., Berol. 1875, pp. 54-58; Sophocles, Hist. of Greek Alphab., 1st edition 1848, p. 64f (on the breathing); Tdf., the Septuagint, edition 4, Proleg., pp. xxxiii. xxxiv.; Scrivener, Collation etc., 2nd edition, p. 55: no. 9; id. manuscript Bezae, p. xlvii. no. 11 (cf. p. xiii. no. 5); Kuenen and Cobet, N. T. etc., p. 87f; Tdf. Proleg., p. 90f; WH. Introductory sections 405ff, and Appendix, p. 143f); the Septuagint for al?, @yIa', @yae; a particle of negation, not (how it differs from mhv has been explained in mhv, at the beginning); it is used:1. absolutely and accented, ouj, nay, no (Winer's Grammar, 476 (444)): in answers, oJ dev fhsivn. ouj, ; ajpekrivqh. Ouj, ; (21:5), cf. ; repeated, ouj ouj, it strengthens the negation, nay, nay, by no means, ; h[tw uJmw'n tov ouj ouj, let your denial be truthful, ; on , see naiv.2. It is joined to other words -- to a finite verb, simply to deny that what is declared in the verb applies to the subject of the sentence: (oujk ejgivnwsken aujthvn); ; ; ; ; , and times without number. It has the same force when conjoined to participles: wJ" oujk ajevra devrwn, ; oujk o[nto" aujtw'/ tevknou, at the time when he had no child, (mhv o[nto" would be, although he had no child); add, ; ; ; ,; ; ; ; ; oJ ... oujk w[n poimhvn, (where according to classical usage mhv must have been employed, because such a person is imagined as is not a shepherd; (cf. Buttmann, 351 (301) and mhv, I. 5 b.)). in relative sentences: eijsin ... tine" oiJ ouj pisteuvousin, ; add, ; ; ; ; , etc.; oujk ejstin o{" and oujdevn ejstin oJ followed by a future: ; ; <<ref:BHS/GNT_Luk 12:2$$