Nothing and Nobody

οὐδείς, feminine οὐδεμίᾰ (never nominative accusative -μίη, -μίην, since οὐδεμιῇ is probably in Refs, rarely οὐδ᾽ ἴα Refs 7th c.BC+, not one, i.e. no one, none, used by Refs 8th c.BC+, except in the phrase τὸ ὃν μένος οὐδενὶ εἴκων Refs 8th c.BC+; οὐδείς is found in Refs 5th c.BC+: rare in plural, no set of persons or things, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐδένων εἰσὶ βελτίους, i.e. οὔ τινων ἄλλων, Refs 5th c.BC+ —In _Ionic dialect_ the _plural_ is usually οὐδαμοί. __2 οὐ. ὅστις οὐ every one, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐδὲν ὅ τι οὐ every, Refs; this came to be regarded as one word, so that οὐδείς passed into the same case as ὅστις, οὐδένα ὅντινα οὐ κατέκλασε Refs 5th c.BC+ __3 later οὐδὲν ὅ τι without οὐ, = nothing, οὐδὲν ὅ τι παρήσω Refs 4th c.BC+ __4 ὅστις οὐδείς not one, ἐτεθνήκεσαν δὲ αὐτῶν μὲν ἀμφὶ τοὺς τετρακοσίους, Ρωμαίων δὲ ὅστις οὐδείς Refs __II naught, good for naught, ὦ νῦν μὲν οὐ. αὔριον δ᾽ ὑπέρμεγας Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ μὲν [γένος ἀνδρῶν] οὐδέν Refs 5th c.BC+ knowing naught, Refs 6th c.BC+; οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ᾔστην οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν δάκνειν knew nothing save how to.., Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐδὲν λέγειν to say naught, see at {λέγω} (B) III.6 ; τὸ οὐδ᾽ οὐδέν the absolute nothing, Refs 5th c.BC+ __II.2 in neuter, of persons, οὐδέν εἰμι Refs 5th c.BC+ __II.3 in plural, οὐδένες ἐόντες ἐν οὐδαμοῖσι ἐοῦσι Ἕλλησι being nobodies, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ μηδὲν ὢν κἀξ οὐδένων κεκλήσομαι uncertain conjecture in Refs 5th c.BC+ __II.4 with Preps., παρ᾽ οὐδὲν εἶναι Refs; παρ᾽ οὐδὲν ἄγειν, θέσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+ __II.5 τὸ οὐδέν naught, zero, in Arith., Refs 2nd c.AD+; used by Democritus as a name for Place, Refs 4th c.BC+ __III neuter οὐδέν as adverb, not at all, naught, ἄριστον Ἀχαιῶν οὐ. ἔτισεν Refs 8th c.BC+: in answers, nothing, never mind, no matter, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐδέν γε not at all, Refs; οὐδὲν μᾶλλον, οὐδὲν ἧσσον, οὐδὲν ὕστερος, see at {μάλα} Refs 4th c.BC+ __III.2 οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἤ, see at {ἄλλος} III. 2. __B REMARKS: the more emphatic and literal sense, not even one, i.e. none whatever, belongs to the full form, οὐδὲ εἷς, οὐδὲ μία, οὐδὲ ἕν, which is never elided, even in Comedy texts (see. Refs 5th c.BC+, but frequently has a Particle inserted between,Refs 5th c.BC+

μηδείς, μηδεμίᾰ, μηδέν (i.e. μηδὲ εἷς, μηδὲ μία, μηδὲ ἕν): feminine μηδὲ ἴα or μηδεΐα (or -έϊα) Refs:— not one, not even one, nobody (in neuter nothing), once in Refs 8th c.BC+ __2 μηδὲ εἷς (so written) is found in Attic dialect Inscrr., as Refsnot even one, μηδὲ ἕν Refs 5th c.BC+: frequently with an intervening Particle or preposition, μηδ᾽ ἂν ἕνα Refs 5th c.BC+; μηδ᾽ ὑφ᾽ ἑνός, μηδ᾽ ὑπὸ μιᾶς, Refs __II nobody, naught, good for naught, κἄμ᾽ ἴσον τῷ μ. Refs 5th c.BC+; μηδέν or τὸ μηδέν as substantive, naught, nothing, κεἰ τὸ μ. ἐξερῶ Refs; μ. λέγειν to say what is naught, Refs 5th c.BC+; of persons, τὸ μ. a good-for-nothing, τὸ μ. εἶναι, of a eunuch, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἧττον αὐτοῖς ἔνι ἢ τὸ μ., i.e. it is a mere impossibility, Refs 5th c.BC+; also μ. εἶναι without the Article, Refs 2nd c.AD+ __III neuter μηδέν as adverb, not at all, by no means, μηδὲν ἐγκέλευ᾽ ἄγαν Refs 5th c.BC+: with an adverb, μ. αἰνικτηρίως Refs 5th c.BC+ — When other negatives, also derived from μή, are used with it, they do not destroy, but strengthen the negation, μηδέποτε μηδὲν αἰσχρὸν ποιήσας ἔλπιζε λήσειν never hope to escape, when you have done anything base. Refs 5th c.BC+; compare μηθείς.

מְא֫וּמָה32 pron.indef. anything (according to Thes from מָה וּמָה, like quidquid, against which is the Mil‘el tone; according to Ol254, 255, 386 Köii. 146 an old accus. from מאוּם in sense of speck, particle, cf. Fr point: in Assyrian manman (proposes who? who?), assim. mamman, or manma (man, who? + generalizing ma), mamma, is any one, minma (min, what? + ma), mimma, is anything, Dl§ 60,DlHWB 418 f. WSG 125 f.);—anything, usually in negative sentences, as Gn 22:12 ואל־תעשׂ לו מאומה (euphem. for something bad), 30:31 לֹא־תִתֶּן־לִי מאומה, 39:6, 9; 40:15 (euphem.), 1 S 12:4, 5; 20:26, 39; 25:7, 15, 21; 29:3 etc., Ju 14:6 ומאומה אין בידו, Ec 5:14 ומ׳ לא ישׂא בעמלו, 1 K 18:43 אין מ׳ lit. nought of anything! Je 39:12 ואל תעשׂ לו מאומה רָּע; strengthened by כֹּל †Gn 39:23; 2 S 3:35; after אִם = surely not, 2 S 3:35; in interrog. sentence Nu 22:38; in affirm. sentence Dt 24:10 כִּי־תַשֶּׁה בֳרֵעֲךָ מַשַּׁאת מ׳ a pledge of (= consisting in) anything, 2 S 13:2 (euphem.), 2 K 5:20 (var. מוּמָח). Adverbially, 1 S 21:3 אישׁ אל ידע מ׳ את הדבר let no one know of the matter in anything at all.