mōmos

Strong’sG3470

a blemish, disgrace

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

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

μῶμος, ὁ,
blame, reproach, disgrace, μῶμον ἀνάψαι to set a brand upon one, Refs 8th c.BC+: also in later Prose, as LXX+1st c.BC+
2 blemish, LXX+NT
II personified, Refs 8th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

blemishes1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

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

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

mōmomō — μωμάομαι, I blame, slander

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mōmois“blemishes”subjectnominative plural1×

2 Peter 2:13… tan en hēmera trufan, spilois kai mōmois entrufarōntois en tai apatai autoiu suneuōchorōntois …… broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they …