G3551: νόμος
nómos · “law”
Definition
law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle)
KJV translates it as: law
Word origin: from a primary (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals);
Extended definition
(νέμω, to deal out, distribute), [in LXX chiefly for תּוֹרָה, also for חֻקָּה, etc. ;]
that which is assigned, hence, usage, custom, then law; in NT (only in Mt, Jo, Ja, and the Lucan and Pauline bks.);
1. of law in general: Rom.3:27 5:13b; pl., of divine laws, Heb.8:10 10:16; ὁ ν. τ. Χριστοῦ, Gal.6:2; (τ.) ἐλευθερίας, Jas.1:25 2:12; βασιλικιός (Hort., in l.; Deiss., LAE, 267:3), Jas.2:8.
2. Of a force or influence impelling to action: Rom.7:21, 23a, 25 8:2.
3. Of the Mosaic law: Mat.5:18, Luk.2:27, Jhn.1:17, Act.6:13, Rom.2:15, 1Co.9:8, 1Ti.1:8, Heb.7:19; al.; Μωυσέως, Luk.2:22, Jhn.7:23, Act.15:5, al.; κυρίου, Luk.2:39; κατὰ τὸν ν., Act.22:12, Heb.7:5 9:22.
4. Anarthrous (Bl, §46, 8; ICC on Rom.2:12, 13), νόμος,
(a) of law in general: Rom.2:12, 14b 3:20, 21 4:15, al.;
(b) of the Mosaic law in its quality as law: Rom.2:14a 5:20 10:4, Gal.2:19, al.; οἱ ἐκ ν., Rom.4:14; ὑπὸ νόμον, 1Co.9:20, Gal.4:5; ν. πράσσειν (πληροῦν), Rom.2:25 13:8.
5. Of Christian teaching: ν. πίστεως, Rom.3:27; τ. Χριστοῦ, Gal.6:2.
6. By meton., of the books which contain the law;
(a) of the Pentateuch: Mat.12:5, Jhn.1:45, al.; ὁ ν. καὶ οἱ προφῆται, Mat.5:17, Luk.16:16, al.; ὁ ν. καὶ προφῆται κ. ψαλμοί, Luk.24:44.
(b) of the OT Scriptures in general (as Heb. תּוֹרָה): Jhn.10:34 12:34 15:25, 1Co.14:21, al.
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G3551 is translated
- law ×102
- the law ×38
- of the law ×8
- law, ×7
- law; ×5
- a law ×4
- of law ×4
- law? ×3
- law. ×3
- of the law. ×2
- the law is ×2
- to the law ×2
Bible verses with G3551 (nómos)
Nómos appears in 158 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Matthew 5:17
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
- Matthew 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, till all be fulfilled.
- Matthew 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 and the prophets.
- Matthew 11:13
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
- Matthew 12:5
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
- Matthew 22:36
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
- Matthew 22:40
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
- Matthew 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, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
- Luke 2:22
And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
- Luke 2:23
(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
- Luke 2:24
And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
- Luke 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,
- Luke 2:39
And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
- Luke 10:26
He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
- Luke 16:16
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
- Luke 16:17
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
- Luke 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 of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
- John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- John 1:45
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
- John 7:19
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
- John 7:23
If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
- John 7:49
But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
- John 7:51
Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
- John 8:5
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
- John 8:17
It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
All 158 references
- John 10:34
- John 12:34
- John 15:25
- John 18:31
- John 19:7
- Acts 6:13
- Acts 7:53
- Acts 13:15
- Acts 13:39
- Acts 15:5
- Acts 15:24
- Acts 18:13
- Acts 18:15
- Acts 21:20
- Acts 21:24
- Acts 21:28
- Acts 22:3
- Acts 22:12
- Acts 23:3
- Acts 23:29
- Acts 24:6
- Acts 24:14
- Acts 25:8
- Acts 28:23
- Romans 2:12
- Romans 2:13
- Romans 2:14
- Romans 2:15
- Romans 2:17
- Romans 2:18
- Romans 2:20
- Romans 2:23
- Romans 2:25
- Romans 2:26
- Romans 2:27
- Romans 3:19
- Romans 3:20
- Romans 3:21
- Romans 3:27
- Romans 3:28
- Romans 3:31
- Romans 4:13
- Romans 4:14
- Romans 4:15
- Romans 4:16
- Romans 5:13
- Romans 5:20
- Romans 6:14
- Romans 6:15
- Romans 7:1
- Romans 7:2
- Romans 7:3
- Romans 7:4
- Romans 7:5
- Romans 7:6
- Romans 7:7
- Romans 7:8
- Romans 7:9
- Romans 7:12
- Romans 7:14
- Romans 7:16
- Romans 7:21
- Romans 7:22
- Romans 7:23
- Romans 7:25
- Romans 8:2
- Romans 8:3
- Romans 8:4
- Romans 8:7
- Romans 9:31
- Romans 9:32
- Romans 10:4
- Romans 10:5
- Romans 13:8
- Romans 13:10
- 1 Corinthians 7:39
- 1 Corinthians 9:8
- 1 Corinthians 9:9
- 1 Corinthians 9:20
- 1 Corinthians 14:21
- 1 Corinthians 14:34
- 1 Corinthians 15:56
- Galatians 2:16
- Galatians 2:19
- Galatians 2:21
- Galatians 3:2
- Galatians 3:5
- Galatians 3:10
- Galatians 3:11
- Galatians 3:12
- Galatians 3:13
- Galatians 3:17
- Galatians 3:18
- Galatians 3:19
- Galatians 3:21
- Galatians 3:23
- Galatians 3:24
- Galatians 4:4
- Galatians 4:5
- Galatians 4:21
- Galatians 5:3
- Galatians 5:4
- Galatians 5:14
- Galatians 5:18
- Galatians 5:23
- Galatians 6:2
- Galatians 6:13
- Ephesians 2:15
- Philippians 3:5
- Philippians 3:6
- Philippians 3:9
- 1 Timothy 1:8
- 1 Timothy 1:9
- Hebrews 7:5
- Hebrews 7:12
- Hebrews 7:16
- Hebrews 7:19
- Hebrews 7:28
- Hebrews 8:4
- Hebrews 8:10
- Hebrews 9:19
- Hebrews 9:22
- Hebrews 10:1
- Hebrews 10:8
- Hebrews 10:16
- Hebrews 10:28
- James 1:25
- James 2:8
- James 2:9
- James 2:10
- James 2:11
- James 2:12
- James 4:11
Words derived from G3551
ἄνομος G459
ánomos — lawless
ἀπονέμω G632
aponémō — to render as due
διανέμω G1268
dianémō — to spread
ἔννομος G1772
énnomos — under law
κληρονόμος G2818
klēronómos — heir
νομή G3542
nomḗ — pasture
νομίζω G3543
nomízō — to think
νομικός G3544
nomikós — lawyer
νομίμως G3545
nomímōs — lawfully
νομοδιδάσκαλος G3547
nomodidáskalos — teacher of the law
νομοθέτης G3550
nomothétēs — lawgiver
οἰκονόμος G3623
oikonómos — manager
παρανομέω G3891
paranoméō — to break the law