Nomízō — G3543

Definition

verb

properly, to do by law (usage), i.e. to accustom (passively, be usual); by extension, to deem or regard

1. to hold by custom or usage, own as a custom or usage
2. to deem, think, suppose

Usually translated as

suppose, be wont, thing

Origin

from G3551

• nómos (G3551)

Occurrences

Nomízō occurs 15 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (3), Luke (2), Acts (7), 1 Corinthians (2), 1 Timothy (1)

• Matthew 5:17 — Think (νομίσητε) not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
• Matthew 10:34 — Think (νομίσητε) not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
• Matthew 20:10 — But when the first came, they supposed (ἐνόμισαν) that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
• Luke 2:44 — But they, supposing (νομίσαντες) him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
• Luke 3:23 — And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed (ἐνομίζετο)) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
• Acts 7:25 — For he supposed (ἐνόμιζεν) his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
• Acts 8:20 — But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought (ἐνόμισας) that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
• Acts 14:19 — And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing (νομίσαντες) he had been dead.
• Acts 16:13 — And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont (ἐνομίζετο) to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
• Acts 16:27 — And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing (νομίζων) that the prisoners had been fled.
• Acts 17:29 — Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think (νομίζειν) that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
• Acts 21:29 — (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed (ἐνόμιζον) that Paul had brought into the temple.)
• 1 Corinthians 7:26 — I suppose (νομίζω) therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
• 1 Corinthians 7:36 — But if any man think (νομίζει) that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
• 1 Timothy 6:5 — Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing (νομιζόντων) that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.