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:
Romans 7:7: "known sin, but by the law: for I had not"
Romans 7:7: "known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."
Romans 7:8: "of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead."
Romans 7:9: "I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment"
Romans 7:12: "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy,"
Romans 7:14: "we know that the law is spiritual: but I"
Romans 7:16: "not, I consent unto the law that it is good."
Romans 7:21: "I find then a law, that, when I would do good,"
Romans 7:22: "For I delight in the law of God after the inward"
Romans 7:23: "But I see another law in my members, warring against"
Romans 7:23: "members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity"
Romans 7:23: "and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in"
Romans 7:25: "I myself serve the law of God; but with the"
Romans 7:25: "of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
Romans 8:2: "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ"
Romans 8:2: "hath made me free from the law of sin and death."
Romans 8:3: "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through"
Romans 8:4: "the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk"
Romans 8:7: "for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed"
Romans 9:31: "But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to"
Romans 9:31: "hath not attained to the law of righteousness."
Romans 9:32: "as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;"
Romans 10:4: "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."
Romans 10:5: "which is of the law, That the man which doeth"
Romans 13:8: "he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."
Romans 13:10: "therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
1 Corinthians 7:39: "The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband"
1 Corinthians 9:8: "or saith not the law the same also?"
1 Corinthians 9:9: "it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox"
1 Corinthians 9:20: "the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that"
1 Corinthians 9:20: "the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under"
1 Corinthians 9:20: "I might gain them that are under the law;"
1 Corinthians 14:21: "In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other"
1 Corinthians 14:34: "also saith the law."
1 Corinthians 15:56: "strength of sin is the law."
Galatians 2:16: "justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus"
Galatians 2:16: "not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law"
Galatians 2:16: "for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
Galatians 2:19: "For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live"
Galatians 2:19: "through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God."
Galatians 2:21: "if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain."
Galatians 3:2: "Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"
Galatians 3:5: "among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing"
Galatians 3:10: "are of the works of the law are under the curse: for"
Galatians 3:10: "the book of the law to do them."
Galatians 3:11: "no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for,"
Galatians 3:12: "And the law is not of faith: but,"
Galatians 3:13: "the curse of the law, being made a curse for us:"
Galatians 3:17: "in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty"
Galatians 3:18: "the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but"
