Word Summary
amemptos: blameless
Original Word: ἄμεμπτοςTransliteration: amemptos
Phonetic Spelling: (am'-emp-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: blameless
Meaning: blameless
Strong's Concordance
blameless, faultless.
From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of memphomai; irreproachable -- blameless, faultless, unblamable.
see GREEK a
see GREEK memphomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 273: ἄμεμπτοςἄμεμπτος, (
μέμφομαι to blame),
blameless, deserving no censure (
Tertullianirreprehensibilis),
free from fault or defect:
Luke 1:6;
Philippians 2:15;
Philippians 3:6;
1 Thessalonians 3:13 (
WH marginal reading
ἀμέμπτως);
Hebrews 8:7 (in which nothing is lacking); in the
Sept. equivalent to
תָּם,
Job 1:1, 8 etc., common in Greek writings. (Cf.
Trench, § ciii.)