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Strong's #3202 - μεμψίμοιρος
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- complaining of one's lot, querulous, discontented
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μεμψῐ-μοιρος, ον,
faultfinding, criticizing, querulous, Isoc. 12.8, Thphr. Char. 17.2, Phld. Lib. p.42 O., Judges 1:16, Luc. Tim. 13, etc.; τὸ μ. Plu. 2.50b: Comp., γυνὴ ἀνδρὸς -ότερον Arist. HA 608b10.
μεμψίμοιρος, μεμψιμοιρον (μέμφομαι, and μοῖρα fate, lot), complaining of one's lot, querulous, discontented: Jude 1:16. (Isocrates, p. 234 c. (p. 387, Lange edition); Aristotle, h. a. 9, 1 (p. 608b, 10); Theophrastus, char. 17, 1; Lucian, dial. deor. 20, 4; Plutarch, de ira cohib. c. 13.)
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* μεμψίμοιρος , -ον
(< μέμφομαι , + μοῖρα , fate, lot),
complaining of one's fate, querulous: Judges 1:16 †
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With μεμψίμοιροι, ";complainers,"; in Judges 1:16, cf. the querulosi of Assumption of Moses vii. 7, occurring in a passage which seems largely to have influenced Jude’s language (see James’ Second Peter and Jude p. xlv. (in CGT)). The word is found in the sense of ";censorious,"; in Vett. Val. p. 17.12, where it is joined with κολαστικός For ἀμεμψιμοίρητος, ";blameless,"; see P Par 63viii. 14 (B.C. 164) δικαίως [πολι ]τευσάμενος ἐμαυτὸν ἀμεμψιμοίρητον παρέσχημαι, and Cagnat IV. 288.8 (mid. ii/B.C. ?) ἀμεμψιμοίρητ [ος δὲ ] ἐν πᾶσιν γεγενημένος, and for the adverb see P Ryl II. 154.19 (a contract of marriage—A.D. 66) ἥ τε Θαισάριον καὶ ὁ Χα [ι ]ρήμων ἀμεμψιμοιρήτως καθότι π ̣[ρότ ]ε ̣ρο ̣ν ̣ [συ ]νεβίουν. Teles p. 56.2 (ed. Hense) unites ἀπερίεργος and ἀμεμψίμοιρος. The verb μεμψιμοιρέω is found from the time of Polybius, e.g. xviii. 31. 7.
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