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νόμος
Transliteration
nomos (Key)
Pronunciation
nom'-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals)
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TDNT Reference: 4:1022,646

Strong’s Definitions

νόμος nómos, nom'-os; from a primary νέμω némō (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals); law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle):—law.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 197x

The KJV translates Strong's G3551 in the following manner: law (197x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 197x
The KJV translates Strong's G3551 in the following manner: law (197x).
  1. anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command

    1. of any law whatsoever

      1. a law or rule producing a state approved of God

        1. by the observance of which is approved of God

      2. a precept or injunction

      3. the rule of action prescribed by reason

    2. of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents

    3. the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, esp. the precept concerning love

    4. the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
νόμος nómos, nom'-os; from a primary νέμω némō (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals); law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle):—law.
STRONGS G3551:
νόμος, νόμου, (νέμω to divide, distribute, apportion), in secular authors from Hesiod down, anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, usage, law; in the Sept. very often for תּורָה, also for חֻקָּה, דָּת, etc. In the N. T. a command, law; and
1. of any law whatsoever: διά ποίου νόμου; Romans 3:27; νόμος δικαιοσύνης, a law or rule producing a state approved of God, i. e. by the observance of which we are approved of God, Romans 9:31, cf. Meyer (see Weiss edition), Fritzsche, Philippi at the passage; a precept or injunction: κατά νόμον ἐντολῆς σαρκίνης, Hebrews 7:16; plural of the things prescribed by the divine will, Hebrews 8:10; Hebrews 10:16; νόμος τοῦ νως, the rule of action prescribed by reason, Romans 7:23; the mention of the divine law causes those things even which in opposition to this law impel to action, and therefore seem to have the force of a law, to be designated by the term νόμος, as ἕτερος νόμος ἐν τοῖς μέλεσί μου, a different law from that which God has given, i. e. the impulse to sin inherent in human nature, or νόμος τῆς ἁμαρτίας (genitive of author), Romans 7:23, 25; Romans 8:2, also νόμος τοῦ θανάτου, emanating from the power of death, Romans 8:2; with which is contrasted νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος, the impulse to (right) action emanating from the Spirit, ibid.
2. of the Mosaic law, and referring, according to the context, either to the volume of the law or to its contents: with the article, Matthew 5:18; Matthew 12:5; Matthew 22:36; Luke 2:27; Luke 10:26; Luke 16:17; John 1:17, 45 (John 1:46); John 7:51; 8:17; 10:34; 15:25; Acts 6:13; Acts 7:53; Acts 18:13, 15; Acts 21:20; Acts 23:3; Romans 2:13 ((bis) here L T Tr WH omit the article (also G in Romans 2:13b)), Romans 2:15, 18, 20, 23b, 26; Romans 4:15a; Romans 7:1b, 5, 14, 21 (on the right interpretation of this difficult passage cf. Knapp, Scripta varii Argumenti, ii., p. 385ff and Fritzsche, Commentary to Romans, ii., p. 57; (others take νόμος here generally, equivalent to controlling principle; see 1 above under the end and cf. Winers Grammar, 557 (578); Buttmann, § 151, 15)); Romans 8:3; 1 Corinthians 9:8; 1 Corinthians 15:56; Galatians 3:13, 24; Ephesians 2:15 (on which passage see δόγμα, 2); 1 Timothy 1:8; Hebrews 7:19, 28; Hebrews 10:1, etc.; with the addition of Μωϋσέως, Luke 2:22; John 7:23; John 8:5; Acts 13:38(Acts 13:39) (here L T Tr WH omit the article); Acts 15:5; Acts 28:23; 1 Corinthians 9:9; of κυρίου, Luke 2:39; of τοῦ Θεοῦ, (Matthew 15:6 T WH marginal reading); Romans 7:22; Romans 8:7. κατά τόν νόμον, according to the (standard or requirement of the) law, Acts 22:12; Hebrews 7:5; Hebrews 9:22. νόμος without the article (in the Epistles of Paul and James and the Epistle to the Hebrews; cf. Winers Grammar, p. 123 (117); Buttmann, 89 (78); (some interpreters contend that νόμος without the article denotes not the law of Moses but law viewed as 'a principle', 'abstract and universal'; cf. Lightfoot on Galatians 2:19; also Fresh Revision, etc., p. 99; Vaughan on Romans 2:23; especially Van Hengel on Romans 2:12; Gifford in the Speaker's Commentary on Romans, pp. 41ff. (cf. Cremer, under the word). This distinction is contrary to usage (as exhibited e. g. in Wis. 18:4; Sir. 19:17 Sir. 21:11 Sir. 31:8 Sir. 32:1 Sir. 35:15, 24 (32); Sirach 36:2,3,(33); 1 Macc. 2:21; 4 Macc. 7:7, and many other examples in the Apocrypha; see Wahl, Clavis Apocrr. under the word, p. 343), and to the context in such Pauline passages as the following: Romans 2:17, 25, 27; Romans 7:1(Romans 7:7); Romans 13:8,10; Galatians 3:17, 18, 23, 24 (cf. Romans 2:12 and Romans 3:19; Romans 5:13 and Romans 5:14); etc. It should be added, perhaps, that neither the list of passages with the article nor of those without it, as given by Prof. Grimm, claims to be complete)): Romans 2:23a, 25; Romans 3:31; Romans 4:15b; Romans 5:13; Romans 7:1a, 2a; Romans 10:4; Romans 13:10; Galatians 3:; Galatians 5:23; 1 Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 7:12, etc.; with the addition of κυρίου, Luke 2:23 (here L has the article), Luke 2:24 (L T Tr WH add the article); of Θεοῦ, Romans 7:25; of Μωϋσέως, Hebrews 10:28; especially after prepositions, as διά νόμου, Romans 2:12; Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:21; χωρίς νόμου, without the cooperation of the law, Romans 3:21; destitute or ignorant of the law, Romans 7:9; where no law has been promulged, Romans 7:8; οἱ ἐκ νόμου, those who rule their life by the law, Jews, Romans 4:14, 16 (here all editions have the article); οἱ ἐν νόμῳ, who are in the power of the law, i. e. bound to it, Romans 3:19 (but all texts here ἐν τῷ νόμῳ); ὑπό νόμον, under dominion of the law, Romans 6:14; Galatians 3:23; Galatians 4:4, 21; Galatians 5:18; οἱ ὑπό νόμον, 1 Corinthians 9:20; δικαιοῦσθαι ἐν νόμῳ, Galatians 5:4; ἔργα νόμου (see ἔργον, under the end); ἐν νόμῳ ἁμαρτάνειν, under law, i. e. with knowledge of the law, Romans 2:12 (equivalent to ἔχοντες νόμον, cf. Romans 2:14); they to whom the Mosaic law has not been made known are said νόμον μή ἔχειν, ibid. 14; ἑαυτοῖς εἰσί νόμος, their natural knowledge of right takes the place of the Mosaic law, ibid.; νόμος ἔργων, the law demanding works, Romans 3:27; διά νόμου νόμῳ ἀπέθανον, by the law itself (when I became convinced that by keeping it I could not attain to salvation, cf. Romans 7:9-24) I became utterly estranged from the law, Galatians 2:19 (cf. Winers Grammar, 210 (197); Buttmann, § 133,12). κατά νόμον, as respects the interpretation and observance of the law, Philippians 3:5. The observance of the law is designated by the following phrases: πληροῦν νόμον, Romans 13:8; τόν νόμον Galatians 5:14; πληροῦν τό δικαίωμα τοῦ νόμου, Romans 8:4; φυλάσσειν (τόν) νόμον, Acts 21:24; Galatians 6:13; τά δικαιώματα τοῦ νόμου, Romans 2:26; πράσσειν νόμον, Romans 2:25; ποιεῖν τόν νόμον, John 7:19; Galatians 5:3; τηρεῖν, Acts 15:5, 24 (Rec.); James 2:10; τέλειν, Romans 2:27 (cf. James 2:8); (on the other hand, ἀκυρουν τόν νόμον Matthew 15:6 T WH marginal reading). νόμος is used of some particular ordinance of the Mosaic law in John 19:7; James 2:8; with a genitive of the object added, τοῦ ἀνδρός, the law enacted respecting the husband, i. e. binding the wife to her husband, Romans 7:2 where Rec.elz omit τοῦ νόμου (so νόμος τοῦ πάσχα, Numbers 9:12; τοῦ λεπροῦ, Leviticus 14:2; other examples are given in Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans, ii., p. 9; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 β.). Although the Jews did not make a distinction as we do between the moral, the ceremonial; the civil, precepts of the law, but thought that all should be honored and kept with the same conscientious and pious regard, yet in the N. T. not infrequently the law is so referred to as to show that the speaker or writer has his eye on the ethical part of it alone, as of primary importance and among Christians also of perpetual validity, but does not care for the ceremonial and civil portions, as being written for Jews alone: thus in Galatians 5:14; Romans 13:8, 10; Romans 2:26; Romans 7:21, 25; Matthew 5:18, and often; τά τοῦ νόμου, the precepts, moral requirements, of the law, Romans 2:14. In the Epistle of James νόμος (without the article) designates only the ethical portion of the Mosaic law, confirmed by the authority of the Christian religion: Romans 2:9-11; Romans 4:11; in the Epistle to the Hebrew, on the other hand, the ceremonial part of the law is the prominent idea.
3. of the Christian religion: νόμος πίστεως, the law demanding faith, Romans 3:27; τοῦ Χριστοῦ, the moral instruction given by Christ, especially the precept concerning love, Galatians 6:2; τῆς ἐλευθερίας (see ἐλευθερία, a.), James 1:25; James 2:12; cf. καινός νόμος τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἄνευ ζυγοῦ ἀνάγκης ὤν, the Epistle of Barnabas 2, 6 [ET] (see Harnack's note, in the place cited).
4. by metonymy νόμος, the name of the more important part (i. e. the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the O. T.: John 7:49; John 10:34 (Psalm 81:6 (Ps. 82:6)); John 12:34 (Psalm 109:4 (Ps. 110:4); (Theod.) Daniel 2:44; Daniel 7:14); John 15:25 (Psalm 34:19 (Ps. 35:19); Psalms 68:15 (Ps. 69:15)); Romans 3:19; 1 Corinthians 14:21 (Isaiah 28:11f; so 2 Macc. 2:18, where cf. Grimm); νόμος καί οἱ προφῆται, Matthew 11:13; John 1:46; Acts 13:15; Acts 24:14; Acts 28:23; Romans 3:21 (2 Macc. 15:9); equivalent to the system of morals taught in the O. T., Matthew 5:17; Matthew 7:12; Matthew 22:40; νόμος (οἱ) προφῆται καί ψαλμοί, the religious dispensation contained in the O. T., Luke 24:44 ( νόμος, οἱ προφῆται καί τά ἀλλά πατριά βιβλία, proleg. to Sir.). Paul's doctrine concerning νόμος is exhibited by (besides others) Weiss, Biblical Theol. §§ 71, 72; Pfleiderer, Paulinismus, pp. 69f. (English translation, i., p. 68f; A. Zahn, Das Gesetz Gottes nach d. Lehre u. Erfahrung d. Apestel Paulus, Halle 1876; R. Tiling, Die Paulinische Lehre vom νόμος nach d. vier Hauptbriefen, as above with Dorpat, 1878). νόμος does not occur in the following N. T. books: 2 Corinthians, Colossians, Thessalonians, 2 Timothy, Peter, Jude, John, and Revelation.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
14:2
Numbers
9:12
Psalms
34:19; 35:19; 68:15; 69:15; 81:6; 82:6; 109:4; 110:4
Song of Songs
2
Isaiah
28:11
Daniel
2:44; 7:14
Matthew
5:17; 5:18; 5:18; 7:12; 11:13; 12:5; 15:6; 15:6; 22:36; 22:40
Luke
2:22; 2:23; 2:24; 2:27; 2:39; 10:26; 16:17; 24:44
John
1:17; 1:45; 1:46; 1:46; 7:19; 7:23; 7:49; 7:51; 8:5; 8:17; 10:34; 10:34; 12:34; 15:25; 15:25; 19:7
Acts
6:13; 7:53; 13:15; 13:38; 13:39; 15:5; 15:5; 15:24; 18:13; 18:15; 21:20; 21:24; 22:12; 23:3; 24:14; 28:23; 28:23
Romans
2:9; 2:10; 2:11; 2:12; 2:12; 2:12; 2:12; 2:13; 2:13; 2:14; 2:14; 2:15; 2:17; 2:18; 2:20; 2:23; 2:23; 2:23; 2:25; 2:25; 2:25; 2:26; 2:26; 2:26; 2:27; 2:27; 3:19; 3:19; 3:19; 3:20; 3:21; 3:21; 3:27; 3:27; 3:27; 3:31; 4:11; 4:14; 4:15; 4:15; 4:16; 5:13; 5:13; 5:14; 6:14; 7:1; 7:1; 7:1; 7:2; 7:2; 7:5; 7:7; 7:8; 7:9; 7:9; 7:10; 7:11; 7:12; 7:13; 7:14; 7:14; 7:15; 7:16; 7:17; 7:18; 7:19; 7:20; 7:21; 7:21; 7:21; 7:22; 7:22; 7:23; 7:23; 7:23; 7:24; 7:25; 7:25; 7:25; 8:2; 8:2; 8:3; 8:4; 8:7; 9:31; 10:4; 13:8; 13:8; 13:8; 13:10; 13:10; 13:10
1 Corinthians
9:8; 9:9; 9:20; 14:21; 15:56
Galatians
2:19; 2:19; 2:21; 3; 3:13; 3:17; 3:18; 3:23; 3:23; 3:24; 3:24; 4:4; 4:21; 5:3; 5:4; 5:14; 5:14; 5:18; 5:23; 6:2; 6:13
Ephesians
2:15
Philippians
3:5
1 Timothy
1:8; 1:9
Hebrews
7:5; 7:12; 7:16; 7:19; 7:28; 8:10; 9:22; 10:1; 10:16; 10:28
James
1:25; 2:8; 2:8; 2:10; 2:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3551 matches the Greek νόμος (nomos),
which occurs 197 times in 158 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Mat 5:17–Rom 2:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:17 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law, G3551 or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:18 - For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, G3551 till all be fulfilled.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:12 - Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law G3551 and the prophets.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:13 - For all the prophets and the law G3551 prophesied until John.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:5 - Or have ye not read in the law, G3551 how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:36 - Master, which is the great commandment in the law? G3551
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:40 - On these two commandments hang all the law G3551 and the prophets.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:23 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, G3551 judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:22 - And when the days of her purification according to the law G3551 of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:23 - (As it is written in the law G3551 of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:24 - And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law G3551 of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:27 - And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, G3551
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:39 - And when they had performed all things according to the law G3551 of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:26 - He said unto him, What is written in the law? G3551 how readest thou?
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:16 - The law G3551 and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:17 - And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law G3551 to fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:44 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law G3551 of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:17 - For the law G3551 was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:45 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, G3551 and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:19 - Did not Moses give you the law, G3551 and yet none of you keepeth the law? G3551 Why go ye about to kill me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:23 - If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law G3551 of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:49 - But this people who knoweth not the law G3551 are cursed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:51 - Doth our law G3551 judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:5 - Now Moses in the law G3551 commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:17 - It is also written in your law, G3551 that the testimony of two men is true.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:34 - Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, G3551 I said, Ye are gods?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:34 - The people answered him, We have heard out of the law G3551 that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:25 - But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, G3551 They hated me without a cause.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:31 - Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. G3551 The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:7 - The Jews answered him, We have a law, G3551 and by our law G3551 he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:13 - And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: G3551
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:53 - Who have received the law G3551 by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:15 - And after the reading of the law G3551 and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:39 - And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law G3551 of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:5 - But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law G3551 of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:24 - Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: G3551 to whom we gave no such commandment:
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:13 - Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. G3551
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:15 - But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, G3551 look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:20 - And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law: G3551
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:24 - Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. G3551
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:28 - Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, G3551 and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:3 - I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law G3551 of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:12 - And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, G3551 having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:3 - Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, G3551 and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:29 - Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, G3551 but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:6 - Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. G3551
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:14 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law G3551 and in the prophets:
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:8 - While he answered for himself, Neither against the law G3551 of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:23 - And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law G3551 of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:12 - For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law G3551 shall be judged by the law; G3551

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