Lexicon memphomai: to blame, find fault Original Word: μέμφομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: memphomai Phonetic Spelling: (mem'-fom-ahee) Short Definition: I blame, censure Definition: I blame, censure, find fault. HELPS word-Studies 3201 mémphomai (from mempteos, "rejected because condemned") – find fault, see as fully blameworthy (disgraceful, condemnable); hence, rejected because deep wrongs by omission or commission. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. verb Definitionto blame, find fault NASB Translationfind fault (1), finding fault (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3201: μέμφομαιμέμφομαι; 1 aorist ἐμεμψαμην; in classical Greek from Hesiod (Works, 184) down; to blame, find fault: absolutely, Romans 9:19; the thing found fault with being evident from what precedes, Mark 7:2 Rec.; αὐτούς, Hebrews 8:8 L T Tr marginal reading WH text, where R G Tr text WH marginal reading αὐτοῖς, which many join with μεμφόμενος (for the person or thing blamed is added by Greek writings now in the dative, now in the accusative; see Passow (or Liddell and Scott), under the word, cf. Krüger, § 46, 7, 3); but it is more correct to supply αὐτήν, i. e. διαθήκην, which the writer wishes to prove was not faultless (cf. 7), and to join αὐτοῖς with λέγει; ( Buttmann, § 133, 9).
Strong's find fault. Middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to blame -- find fault. |
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