Word Summary
anamartētos: unerring, faultless
Original Word: ἀναμάρτητοςTransliteration: anamartētos
Phonetic Spelling: (an-am-ar'-tay-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: unerring, faultless
Meaning: unerring, faultless
Strong's Concordance
that is without sin.
From a (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of hamartano; sinless -- that is without sin.
see GREEK a
see GREEK hamartano
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 361: ἀναμάρτητοςἀναμάρτητος,
ἀναμάρτητον (from
ἄν, the alpha privative, and the form
ἁμαρτέω),
sinless, both
one who has not sinned, and
one who cannot sin. In the former sense in
John 8:7;
Deuteronomy 29:19; 2 Macc. 8:4 2Macc. 12:42; (
Test. xii. Patr. test. Benj. § 3). On the use of this word from
Herodotus down, cf. Ullmann, Sündlosigkeit Jesu, p. 91f ((abridged in) English translation, p. 99;
Cremer, under the word).