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:
Galatians 3:19: "Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till"
Galatians 3:21: "Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid:"
Galatians 3:21: "God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life,"
Galatians 3:21: "verily righteousness should have been by the law."
Galatians 3:23: "came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith"
Galatians 3:24: "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ,"
Galatians 4:4: "a woman, made under the law,"
Galatians 4:5: "redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."
Galatians 4:21: "do ye not hear the law?"
Galatians 4:21: "ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?"
Galatians 5:3: "to do the whole law."
Galatians 5:4: "unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace."
Galatians 5:14: "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in"
Galatians 5:18: "ye are not under the law."
Galatians 5:23: "such there is no law."
Galatians 6:2: "so fulfill the law of Christ."
Galatians 6:13: "they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised,"
Ephesians 2:15: "the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to"
Philippians 3:5: "of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;"
Philippians 3:6: "the righteousness which is in the law, blameless."
Philippians 3:9: "righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith"
1 Timothy 1:8: "we know that the law is good, if a man use"
1 Timothy 1:9: "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but"
Hebrews 7:5: "people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though"
Hebrews 7:12: "necessity a change also of the law."
Hebrews 7:16: "is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after"
Hebrews 7:19: "For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better"
Hebrews 7:28: "For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity;"
Hebrews 7:28: "which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated forevermore."
Hebrews 8:4: "that offer gifts according to the law:"
Hebrews 8:10: "the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and"
Hebrews 9:19: "the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves"
Hebrews 9:22: "all things are by the law purged with blood; and"
Hebrews 10:1: "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not"
Hebrews 10:8: "are offered by the law;"
Hebrews 10:16: "the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and"
Hebrews 10:28: "He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under"
James 1:25: "whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth"
James 2:8: "ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love"
James 2:9: "and are convinced of the law as transgressors."
James 2:10: "shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one"
James 2:11: "yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law."
James 2:12: "they that shall be judged by the law of liberty."
James 4:11: "judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law:"
James 4:11: "speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge"
James 4:11: "the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer"
James 4:11: "the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge."