Oudepote marks an absolute negative claim: something has not happened at any time or will not happen.

The attested adverb marks an unqualified negative across time: past experience is denied in reports of never eating, walking, seeing, or reading, while other clauses deny that an action will occur or can achieve its stated result. The same broad force appears in personal declarations, questions, public reactions, and statements about sacrifices.

1. Absolute negation across time · dominant

   As an adverb, it makes the clause's negative claim comprehensive rather than limited to a particular occasion. In Acts 10:14 the APB renders Peter's denial as "I have never eaten anything common or unclean"; in Acts 14:8 it describes a man who "had never walked"; and in Hebrews 10:11 it occurs in the statement that repeated sacrifices "can never take away sins." Questions and reactions use the same force in Mark 2:25 and Mark 2:12, where the APB renders "Have you never read" and "We never saw anything like this."

   Acts 10:14Acts 14:8Hebrews 10:11Mark 2:25Mark 2:12Matthew 26:33

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly expresses the adverb with "never," as in statements about failing, seeing, reading, and being made to stumble. It also uses forms such as "has ever entered" in Acts 11:8; These English forms show the clause's overall negative-time sense rather than a fixed one-to-one rendering.