Lexical Summary amōmos: amomum (a fragrant plant of India) Original Word: ἄμωμοςTransliteration: amōmos Phonetic Spelling: (am'-o-mos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: amomum (a fragrant plant of India) Meaning: blameless,unblemished, a fragrant plant of India Strong's Concordance without blame, without blemish, faultless. From a (as a negative particle) and momos; unblemished (literally or figuratively) -- without blame (blemish, fault, spot), faultless, unblamable. see GREEK a see GREEK momos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 299a: ἄμωμονἄμωμον, , 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: ἄμωμοςἄμωμος, (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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