μέμψις
blame, censure
Where this word appears
Every passage where μέμψις appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 33:10 μέμψις Yet he has revealed a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary.
- Job 33:23 μέμψις Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and show his folly;
- Job 39:7 μέμψις He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.
About this word
About this word
μέμψις (mémpsis), “blame, censure,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 3 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
