Strong's Greek Concordance

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

νόμος, -ου, ὁ
(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

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