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Strong's #299 - ἄμωμος
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- without blemish
- as a sacrifice without spot or blemish
- morally: without blemish, faultless, unblameable
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ἄμωμος, ον, blameless, Semon. 4; νόμος Hdt. 2.177;
1. without blemish, εἶδος ἄ. Hes. Th. 259; κάλλει A. Pers. 185; in epitaphs, CIG 1974 (Thessalonica), al.
2. unblemished, of victims, etc., LXX Exodus 29:1, al., 1 Peter 1:19, Ph. 1.171, al.
3. unimpaired, perfect, ὑγίεια IG 5(1).1119 (Geronthrae, iv B. C.).
ἄμωμον, , τό, amomum, a fragrant plant of India, having the foliage of the white vine (elsewhere, ampeloleuce) and seed, in clusters like grapes, from which ointment, was made (Pliny, h. n. 12, 13 (28)): Revelation 18:13 G L T Tr WH. (See B. D. American edition under the word.)
STRONGS NT 299: ἄμωμος ἄμωμος, (μῶμος), without blemish, free from faultiness, as a victim without spot or blemish: 1 Peter 1:19 (Leviticus 22:21); Hebrews 9:14; in both places allusion is made to the sinless life of Christ. Ethically, without blemish, faultless, unblamable: Ephesians 1:4; Ephesians 5:27; Colossians 1:22; Philippians 2:15 L T Tr WH; Jude 1:24; Revelation 14:5. (Often in the Sept.; (Hesiod, Simonides, Jamblichus), Herodotus 2, 177; Aeschylus Pers. 185; Theocritus, 18, 25.) (Synonym: see Trench, § ciii.; Tittmann 1:29f.)
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ἄ -μωμος , -ον
(< μῶμος , q.v.),
[in LXX chiefly for H8549];
of sacrificial victims, without blemish: of Christ, Hebrews 9:14, 1 Peter 1:19; ethically, unblemished, faultless: Ephesians 1:4; Ephesians 5:27, Philippians 2:15, Colossians 1:22, Judges 1:24, Revelation 14:5 (Cremer, 425, 788; MM, VGT, s.v.).†
SYN.: ἀμίαντος G283, ἄσπιλος G784.
* ἄμωμον , -ου , τό ,
amomum, a fragrant plant of India (RV, spice): Revelation 18:13.
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The word is found in a sepulchral epitaph from Thessalonica CIG 1974, also in the sepulchral poem referred to under ἀμάραντος —δικνὺς σέλας αἰὲν ἄμωμον. Nägeli (p. 25) further cites the Paris magical papyrus, l. 1311. For the use of Ἄμωμος as a proper name, see Fick-Bechtel Die griechischen Personennamen, p. 213.
Hort (on 1 Peter 1:19) points out that the Biblical use of ἄμωμος, properly ";without blame,"; was affected by the Hebrew מוּם ";blemish,"; for rendering which the LXX translators caught at the curiously similar μῶμος.
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