noun · masculine

mōmos

Greekμῶμος (mōmos)

Strong’sG3470

a blemish, disgrace

stem mōm-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

blemishes1×

What it means

μῶμος, -ου, ὁ,

[in LXX, of physical blemishes: Le 21:17 ff., De 15:21, Ca 4:7, al. (מוּם); of mental defect, Si 20:24, al.;]

1. in cl. poets and late prose, blame, disgrace.

2. In LXX, perh. because of resemblance to מוּםpossible misspelling of מאוּם, a physical blemish (cf. ἄμωμος, I Pe 1:19, and v. Hort., in l.); metaph., of licentious persons, II Pe 2:13.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3470 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmo'-mos

a flaw or blot, i.e. (figuratively) disgraceful person

Fromperhaps from G3201;

King Jamesblemish.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	mōmos	mōmois1×μῶμοι
object accusative	mōmon	mōmoin
direct address vocative	mōmor	mōmoir
of, belonging to genitive	mōmou	mōmoiu
to, for dative	mōmo	mōmoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

mōmstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

mōmo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

mōmimō — μωμάομαι, I blame, slander

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mōmois“blemishes”subjectnominative plural1×

2 Peter 2:13“blemishes”adikerōtois misthon adikiau; hēdonan hēgerōtois tan en hēmera trufan, spilois kai mōmois entrufarōtois en tai apatai autoiu suneuōcherōtois vi,The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.