Memphomai means “find fault” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3201 — yakol (“be able”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3201 μέμφομαι (memphomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. memphomai (mem'-fom-ai) v. 1. to blame [middle voice of an apparently primary verb] It has 7 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include fault, find, and finding. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
memphomai (mem'-fom-ai) v. 1. to blame [middle voice of an apparently primary verb] KJV: find fault
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3201. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to blame
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render memphomai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3201 (μέμφομαι) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Thou shalt narrow the ark in making it, and in a cubit above thou shalt finish it, and the door of the ark thou shalt make on the side; with lower, second, and third stories thou shalt make it.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Which when Jeremiah perceived, he blamed them, saying, As for that place, it shall be unknown until the time that God gather his people again together, and receive them unto mercy.
Blame not before thou hast examined the truth: Understand first, and then rebuke.
The children will complain of an ungodly father, Because they will be reproached for his sake.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3201.
Thou shalt narrow the ark in making it, and in a cubit above thou shalt finish it, and the door of the ark thou shalt make on the side; with lower, second, and third stories thou shalt make it.
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Which when Jeremiah perceived, he blamed them, saying, As for that place, it shall be unknown until the time that God gather his people again together, and receive them unto mercy.
Blame not before thou hast examined the truth: Understand first, and then rebuke.
The children will complain of an ungodly father, Because they will be reproached for his sake.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3201, grouped by book.
Memphomai (Strong's G3201) is a Greek word most simply glossed "find fault". memphomai (mem'-fom-ai) v. 1. to blame [middle voice of an apparently primary verb]
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G3201 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3201 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fault, find, and finding. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3201, with linked reader references where each row is available.