neither
mete joins coordinated items or actions under a shared negation, marking that none is included.
As a conjunction, μήτε links items, actions, or sources within a shared negative statement: the clauses exclude alternatives such as eating and drinking, heaven and earth, or earth, sea, and trees.
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Links coordinated elements under negation · dominant
The supplied morphology identifies μήτε as a conjunction. In Acts 23:12 the APB renders an oath that they would “neither eat nor drink,” while in James 5:12 it renders a prohibition extending to “neither by heaven nor by earth nor by any other oath”; Revelation 7:3 similarly extends a command not to harm “the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly expresses the coordinated negative relation with “neither... nor” or repeated “nor,” as in Acts 23:12, James 5:12, and Revelation 7:3. These English forms show the clause-level pattern rather than a fixed one-word rendering.