μεμψίμοιρος, μεμψιμοιρον (μέμφομαι, and μοῖρα fate, lot), complaining of one's lot, querulous, discontented: Jud_1:16. (Isocrates, p. 234 c. (p. 387, Lange edition); Aristotle, h. a. 9, 1 (p. 608b, 10); Theophrastus, char. 17, 1; Lucian, dial. deor. 20, 4; Plutarch, de ira cohib. c. 13.)

μεμψίμοιρος mempsimoiros 1x finding fault or being discontented with one s lot, querulous; a discontented, querulous person, a complainer, Jud_1:16

* μεμψίμοιρος , -ον ( < μέμφομαι , + μοῖρα , fate, lot), complaining of one's fate, querulous: Jud_1:16 †

μεμψίμοιρος [page 396] With μεμψίμοιροι , complainers, in Jud_1:16 , cf. the querulosi of Assumption of Moses vii. 7, occurring in a passage which seems largely to have influenced Jude s language (see James Second Peter and Jude p. xlv. (in CGT )). The word is found in the sense of censorious, in Vett. Val. p. 17 .12 , where it is joined with κολαστικός For ἀμεμψιμοίρητος , blameless, see P Par 63 viii. 14 (B.C. 164) δικαίως [πολι ]τευσάμενος ἐμαυτὸν ἀμεμψιμοίρητον παρέσχημαι , and Cagnat IV. 288 .8 (mid. ii/B.C. ?) ἀμεμψιμοίρητ [ος δὲ ] ἐν πᾶσιν γεγενημένος , and for the adverb see P Ryl II. 154 .19 (a contract of marriage A.D. 66) ἥ τε Θαισάριον καὶ ὁ Χα [ι ]ρήμων ἀμεμψιμοιρήτως καθότι π̣[ρότ ]ε̣ρο̣ν̣ [συ ]νεβίουν . Teles p. 56 .2 (ed. Hense) unites ἀπερίεργος and ἀμεμψίμοιρος . The verb μεμψιμοιρέω is found from the time of Polybius, e.g. xviii. 31. 7.

μεμψίμοιρος μεμψί-μοιρος, ον [Etym: μοῖρα] "complaining of one's fate, repining, querulous", Isocr. , Luc.

μεμψίμοιρος, -ον (μέμφομαι, + μοῖρα, fate, lot), complaining of one's fate, querulous: Ju 16 † (AS)