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To blame

μέμφομαιStrong’s G3201

memphomai

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Memphomai is the Greek word usually translated “found fault”, “does he find fault” and “finding fault”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.”
Mark 7:2 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “found fault”, “does he find fault” and “finding fault”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • they found fault 1
  • does he find fault 1
  • finding fault 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Mark 1
  • Romans 1
  • Hebrews 1

3 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

μέμφομαι memphomai · to blame

μέμφομαι [in LXX: Sir.11:7 41:7, 2Ma.2:7 * ;] to blame, find fault: absol., Rom.9:19; with accusative, αὐτούς (WH, txt.; αὐτούς, Rec., WH, mg.; on rendering with αὐτούς see Westc., in l), Heb.8:8.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “blame” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BLAME, verb transitive

[The Greeks have the root of this word, to blaspheme.]

  1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; opposed to praise or commend, and applicable most properly to persons, but applied also to things.“I withstood him, because he was to be blamed” Galatians 2:11
  2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish; to injure. [See Blemish.]
All definitions and other forms of “blame”

    BLAME, noun

    Censure; reprehension; imputation of a fault; disapprobation; an expression of disapprobation for something deemed to be wrong.

    1. Fault; crime; sin; that which is deserving of censure or disapprobation.“That we should be holy and without blame before him in love” Ephesians 1:4
    2. Hurt; injury.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.