ἄμωμος, -ov, (μῶμος), without blemish, free from faultiness, as a victim without spot or blemish: 1 Pet. i. 19 (Lev. xxii. 21); Heb. ix. 14; in both places allusion is made to the sinless life of Christ. Ethically, without blemish, faultless, unblamable: Eph. i. 4; v. 27; Col. i. 22; Phil. ii. 15 LTTrWH; Jude 24; Rey. xiv. 5. (Often in Sept.; [Hesiod, Simon., Iambl.], Hdt. 2, 177; Aeschyl. Pers. 185; Theoer. 18, 25.) [Syn. see Trench § ciii.; Tittmann i. 29 sq.]

ἄ-μωμος, -ον

(< μῶμος, q.v.), [in LXX chiefly for תָּמִים];

of sacrificial victims, without blemish: of Christ, He 9:14, I Pe 1:19; ethically, unblemished, faultless: Eph 1:4 5:27, Phl 2:15, Col 1:22, Ju 24, Re 14:5 (Cremer, 425, 788; MM, VGT, s.v.).†

SYN.: ἀμίαντος, ἄσπιλος.

ἄμωμος. The word is found in a sepulchral epitaph from Thessalonica C/G 1974, also in the sepulchral poem referred to under apapavros—Sikvis σέλας αἰὲν ἄμωμον. Nageli(p. 25) " αν further cites the Paris magical papyrus, 1. 1311. For the use of "Apwpos as a proper name, see Fick-Bechtel Dee griechischen Personennamen, Ὁ. 213. Hort (on 1 Pet. 119) points out that the Biblical use of ἄμωμος, properly ‘‘ without blame,” was affected by the Hebrew D4 ‘*blemish,” for rendering which the LXX translators caught at the curiously similar μῶμος. ay. For the rapid decay of this particle in Hellenistic vernacular, reference may be made to Pro/eg. pp. 165-9, 197-201 : a few additional points may be brought in. First comes the use with relatives and conjunctions, normally but by no means universally taking the subjunctive. Here in i/ and ii/A.D. ἐάν greatly predominated over ἄν, except with ὅπως, ὡς and ἕως. Thackeray (Gr. p. 68), collecting statistics from more extensive material than had been available in Pro/eg. Ῥ- 43, sums up the results to the same purpose : about B.C. 133 “8s [etc.] ἐάν begins to come to the front, and from i/B.c. onwards the latter is always the predominant form: the figures in both columns decrease in iii/—iv/A.D., when the use of the indefinite relative in any form was going out of use.” The ultimate result of this process is seenin MGr, where the 2) (( only traces left of ἄν are inthe compounds σάν “as,” ““assoon as,” and ἄν “if,” with kav (= κἄν) “even.” av is from ὡς ἄν, which in papyri is used in the same senses: thus BGU IV. 1098*4 (end of i/B.c.) ὡς ἂν ἐπὶ το[ῦ κα]ιροῦ κοιvas κρίνωσι (according as), 73. 1209! (B.C. 23) ὡς ἂν λάβῃς τὸ γράμμα (as soon as), P Hib I. 664 (B.c. 228-7), dfs δ᾽] ἂν παραγένωμαι (do.). Several instances are collected by Witkowski (? p. 87), and Phil 2533, 1 Cor 1134, Rom 1524 noted as parallel, as in Pro/eg. p. 167. _The MGr ἄν inherits the uses of ἐάν. The latter in vernacular Hlellenistic is stable, or even reverts to εἰάν by re-composition ; but the form ἄν is found in many illiterate documents of the Kowy and may be the direct ancestor of the MGr. See Pro/eg. Ρ. 43 π.2. On ἄν with opt., or 72d. zrvealis, see Proleg. pp. 197201. A reference should be added to Goodspeed’s convineing suggestion (xf 7’ xx. 471 f.) that in Mk 7! we should read ὃ ἂν (so D) ἐξ ἐμοῦ ὠφελήθης, indic., “ what you would have gained from me.” Two or three additional instances of ἄν in “unreal” clauses may be given from the papyri :— P Tor I. rit 358. (B.C, 116) (== Chrest. 11. p. 39), καὶ εἴπερ γε δὴ ἐνόμιζεν ἔχειν τι δίκαιον κτὰ., οὐκ ἄν ποτε προαχθῆναι (depending on ὥστ᾽ εὔδηλον εἶναι in 1. 31), Ρ. Giss 1. 4717 fearly ii/A.D.) τὸ ὀνάριον τὸ χαλκοῦν εἰ ἐπωλεῖτο δραχμῶν RB, ἔκτοτε ἂν ἔπεμψά σοι, id. γοἷϊ- ὃ (same period) εἰ δυνατόν μίοῳ ἣν KTA., οὐκ ἂν ἀ[κ]νήκειν, BGU IV. 114127f (end of i/B.c.) ἠ (λ εἰ) ἣν δάκρυά σοι γράφειν, γεγραφήκειν ἂν ἀπὸ τῶν δακρύων, CPHerm I. 77! εἰ μὲν δὴ χορηγία τις [ἣ]ν κτλ. (a gap of 21 letters included), οὐδὲν ἂν ἡμᾶς ἔδει πε]ρὶ τού[των δεῖσθαι. To the papyrus exx. of ἄν dropped (Prodeg.* Ῥ- 200 n.*), add PSI 719! (vi/a.p.) et μὴ ἡ θεία πρόνοια ἐβοήθησεν κτλ., εἶχαν ἀλλήλ[ους) ἀναιλῖν (/. ἀνελεῖν). The fewness of our exx. shows that the NT omissions of ἄν, practically confined to Jn, are not normal Kow grammar, except in clauses where omission was classical: the construction itself was dying out, but the ἄν was preserved while the locution lasted. MGr uses a periphrastic conditional mood (Thumb Handbook, p. 195). 9 αναβαίνω

ἄμωμος (amōmos) — blameless. ἄμωμος, ον, blameless, [Refs 7th c.BC+]; without blemish, εἶδος ἄ.[Refs 8th c.BC+]

2. unblemished, of victims, etc., [LXX+NT+1st c.AD+]

3. unimpaired, perfect, ὑγίεια[Refs 4th c.BC+]