Strong's #3551: nomos (pronounced nom'-os)
from a primary nemo (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.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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nomos
1) anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command
1a) of any law whatsoever
1a1) a law or rule producing a state approved of God
1a1a) by the observance of which is approved of God
1a2) a precept or injunction
1a3) the rule of action prescribed by reason
1b) of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents
1c) the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, especially the precept concerning love
1d) the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals)
Citing in TDNT: 4:1022, 646
Usage:
This word is used 197 times:
Acts 28:23: "both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets,"
Romans 2:12: "as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;"
Romans 2:12: "the law shall be judged by the law;"
Romans 2:13: "the hearers of the law are just before God, but"
Romans 2:13: "the doers of the law shall be justified."
Romans 2:14: "the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the"
Romans 2:14: "by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law,"
Romans 2:14: "these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:"
Romans 2:14: "not the law, are a law unto themselves:"
Romans 2:15: "the work of the law written in their hearts,"
Romans 2:17: "and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,"
Romans 2:18: "being instructed out of the law;"
Romans 2:20: "truth in the law."
Romans 2:23: "Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law"
Romans 2:23: "through breaking the law dishonorest thou God?"
Romans 2:25: "profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law,"
Romans 2:25: "but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision."
Romans 2:26: "the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted"
Romans 2:27: "nature, if it fulfill the law, judge thee, who by the letter"
Romans 2:27: "and circumcision dost transgress the law?"
Romans 3:19: "that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under"
Romans 3:19: "to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped,"
Romans 3:20: "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified"
Romans 3:20: "be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin."
Romans 3:21: "the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the"
Romans 3:21: "being witnessed by the law and the prophets;"
Romans 3:27: "It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by"
Romans 3:27: "Nay: but by the law of faith."
Romans 3:28: "by faith without the deeds of the law."
Romans 3:31: "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,"
Romans 3:31: "God forbid: yea, we establish the law."
Romans 4:13: "to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith."
Romans 4:14: "if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and"
Romans 4:15: "Because the law worketh wrath: for where no"
Romans 4:15: "for where no law is, there is no transgression."
Romans 4:16: "to that only which is of the law, but to that also"
Romans 5:13: "(For until the law sin was in the world: but"
Romans 5:13: "imputed when there is no law."
Romans 5:20: "Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But"
Romans 6:14: "ye are not under the law, but under grace."
Romans 6:15: "we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid."
Romans 7:1: "(for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over"
Romans 7:1: "the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as"
Romans 7:2: "woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if"
Romans 7:2: "she is loosed from the law of her husband."
Romans 7:3: "she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress,"
Romans 7:4: "also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ;"
Romans 7:5: "which were by the law, did work in our members"
Romans 7:6: "we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held;"
Romans 7:7: "shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay,"
