medamos is an emphatic refusal spoken in response to the command concerning common or unclean food.

The attested use is an emphatic negative reply: in both occurrences, it introduces a refusal connected with eating anything described as common or unclean.

1. Emphatic refusal of the proposed eating · dominant

   The adverbial form introduces Peter's negative response to the command: in Acts 10:14 the APB renders the reply "Surely not, Lord," before his statement that he has never eaten anything common or unclean. The same refusal recurs in Acts 11:8, where the APB renders "By no means, Lord," before the statement that nothing common or unclean has entered his mouth.

   Acts 10:14Acts 11:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB varies its presentation between "Surely not" in Acts 10:14 and "By no means" in Acts 11:8. These renderings confirm the force of the replies without establishing separate senses.