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Strong's #361 - ἀναμάρτητος
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ἀναμάρτ-ητος, ον,
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1. making no mistake, unerring, X. Cyr. 8.7.22, Pl. R. 339b.
2. in moral sense, blameless, Hp. Fract. 16 (Comp.), cf. Antipho 3.2.10, Men. Epit. 487, Phld. Sto.Herc. 339.17; sinless, John 8:7, cf. Aristeas 252, Muson. Fr. 2p.6H.; ἀ. πολιτεία a faultless form of government, Arist. Pol. 1275b2; ἀ. πρός τινα having done no wrong to a person, Hdt. 1.117; τινί 5.39; ἀ. τινός guiltless of a thing, 1.155: τὸ -ητότατον, = cross ἀναμαρτησία, X. Ages. 6.7, cf. Pl. R. 477e; πρὸς τὸ ἀ. to preserve from error, Arist. EN 1155a13. Adv. -τως without fail, unerringly, X. Mem. 2.8.5; without making a mistake, Ps.- Alex. Aphr. in SE 15.33; inoffensively, [ D. ] 61.21.
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1. of things, not done by fault, done unavoidably, συμφορά Antipho 3.2.11.
2. unfailing, Dion.Byz. 17.
ἀναμάρτητος, ἀναμάρτητον (from ἄν, the alpha privative, and the form ἁμαρτέω), sinless, both one who has not sinned, and one who cannot sin. In the former sense in John 8:7; Deuteronomy 29:19; 2 Macc. 8:4 2Macc. 12:42; (Test. xii. Patr. test. Benj. § 3). On the use of this word from Herodotus down, cf. Ullmann, Sündlosigkeit Jesu, p. 91f ((abridged in) English translation, p. 99; Cremer, under the word).
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ἀναμάρτητος , -ον
(< ἁμαρτεῖν ),
[in LXX: Deuteronomy 29:19 (18) 2 Maccabees 8:4; 2 Maccabees 12:42 *;]
1. without missing, unerring (Xen.).
2. In moral sense, faultless (Plat.), without sin: John 8:7 (v. Cremer, 102, 634; MM, VGT, s.v.).†
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For ἀ. = ";sinless,"; as in John 8:7, cf. Musonius, p. 616, where it is laid down—μηδένα ἀπαιτεῖσθαι εἶναι ἀναμάρτητον, ὅστις ἀρετὴν μὴ ἐξέμαθεν, ἐπείπερ ἀρετὴ μόνη ποιεῖ μὴ ἁμαρτάνειν ἐν βίῳ. See also Aristeas 252 (bis).
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