ἄμωμος
ámōmos · G299 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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without defect, without blemish
Pertaining to having no defect or blemish
Examples1 Peter 1:19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
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blameless, without fault, faultless, perfect
Pertaining to being without fault and hence morally blameless
ExamplesEphesians 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love
Ephesians 5:27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
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,
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
- γόμοςload 1
Second object ofSecond object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἵστημιto stand, to set 1
- παρίστημιto stand by, to present 1
- προσφέρωto offer, to bring to 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐγώI, we 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- תָּמִים tâmîym · H8549 · whole, complete, full
- Hebrew תָּמִים denotes completeness, wholeness, and freedom from physical or moral defect — perfect, without blemish, upright — and its Greek rendering, ἄμωμος, carries the same core sense of unblemished integrity in both ritual/sacrificial contexts (physical perfection) and ethical/spiritual contexts (moral blamelessness), reflecting systematic translation equivalence.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Without defect, without blemish79.61
- In Hebrews 9:14, Christ “through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish (ámōmon) to God,” describing a sacrificial victim physically free of any flaw.
- Blameless, without fault, faultless, perfect88.34
- In Ephesians 1:4, God “chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless (amṓmous) before Him,” describing a moral standing entirely free of fault.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τό, amomum, a fragrant plant of India, having the foliage of the white vine (elsewhere,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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