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oudeis excludes any person or thing from an action, claim, possession, or stated category in Scripture.
The term most often excludes any person or thing from an action, capacity, knowledge, or category: no person acts, knows, sees, or qualifies, and no thing is present or permitted. In several neuter clauses it also characterizes a person, object, or matter as nothing or as lacking value or standing in the stated context.
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Exclusion of any person or thing · dominant
The nominative masculine form marks the absent actor or person in clauses such as no one hearing in 1 Corinthians 14:2, no one taking in John 10:18, and no one able to tame the tongue in James 3:8. Neuter and other case forms exclude a thing or object of an action: in Acts 20:20 the APB renders the clause "I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable," while Acts 15:9 states that no distinction was made.
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Being nothing or of no account · occasional
Neuter forms occur where the clause evaluates a person, object, or matter as nothing: in 1 Corinthians 13:2 the APB renders "I am nothing" without love, and in 1 Corinthians 7:19 it renders both circumcision and uncircumcision as "nothing." In Acts 19:27, the sacred place is said to be about to be "counted as nothing."
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the exclusion as "no one," "none," "nothing," or "no," and in evaluative clauses as "I am nothing" or "counted as nothing." These renderings confirm the clauses' negative scope rather than establish separate English equivalents.