οὐδὲν (ouden) in Matthew 5:13: Adjective Accusative Singular Neuter
οὐδὲν (ouden) in Matthew 5:13
Textual Witness
The witness reads οὐδὲν in Matthew 5:13.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
States the thorough loss of usefulness in the image.
How To Communicate It
Use it to explain the total negative force of the statement inside the image.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Keep the form tied to Matthew 5:13.
- Do not detach it from the value statement in Matthew 5:13.
- Do not use morphology alone to build a complete doctrinal claim.
What Does The Label Mean?
Adjective: the form qualifies, limits, or describes another word or idea in the clause.
Accusative: marks how the adjective fits the clause or the word it modifies.
Singular: the number follows the occurrence and its agreement pattern.
Neuter: grammatical gender marks agreement and should not be treated as an interpretive claim by itself.
What The Form Does In This Verse
Is useful
The value statement in Matthew 5:13
Negates any remaining usefulness in the image.
Do not use the negative adjective apart from the salt metaphor to make a universal claim about people.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Medium: negative value statement
Negative value word. negates the remaining usefulness. Attached to is useful. Governed by the value statement in Matthew 5:13. Read with no longer good for anything.
How useful is the salt after this loss? Within the image, it is no longer useful for anything.
Direct: The form supports nothing or for nothing.
This occurrence must be read within Matthew 5:13, not as a standalone word study.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The witness reads οὐδὲν in Matthew 5:13.
The form means nothing or not anything, and here it negates value within the clause.
It stands with the usefulness verb to say that the salt is no longer good for anything.
The warning moves from loss of saltiness to loss of usefulness.
The form supports the seriousness of Jesus warning without replacing the metaphor with a separate doctrine.
Use it to explain the total negative force of the statement inside the image.
Do not turn this adjective into a final judgment claim apart from Jesus metaphor.