ἄμεμπτος
ámemptos · G273 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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blameless, without blame, innocent, guiltless
Pertaining to being without fault or blame
ExamplesLuke 1:6 They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.
Philippians 2:15 so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,
Philippians 3:6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τέκνονchild, offspring 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- στηρίζωto strengthen 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρῶτοςfirst 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἀνέγκλητος anénklētos · G410 · without accusation
- The two terms denote genuinely overlapping but distinguishable aspects of moral and legal blamelessness: the target emphasizes the absence of internal fault ('blameless'), while ἀνέγκλητος emphasizes the absence of external accusation ('without accusation'). This reflects a real semantic convergence in the overlapping territory between internal character and external reputation that Greek moral vocabulary commonly exploits.
- ἀμώμητος amṓmētos · G298 · blameless
- Both terms describe moral or ethical blamelessness, with ἄμεμπτος denoting one who is irreproachable or free from fault, functioning as a near synonym to ἀμώμητος in contexts of moral evaluation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Blameless, without blame, innocent, guiltless88.317
- In Luke 1:6, Zacharias and Elizabeth “were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly (ámemptoi) in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord,” describing a life free of moral fault.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (μέμφομαι to blame), blameless, deserving no censure (Tertullianirreprehensibilis), free…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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