Nómos — G3551

G3551 · Greek — νόμος

Pronunciation: nom'-os

Definition

masculine noun

law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle)

  1. of any law whatsoever
  2. of the Mosaic law, and referring, according to the context, either to the volume of the law or to its contents
  3. of the Christian religion
  4. by metonymy ὁ νόμος, the name of the more important part (i. e. the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the O. T

Usually translated as

law

Origin

from a primary némō (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals)

Occurrences

Nómos occurs 197 times in 158 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (8), Luke (9), John (13), Acts (19), Romans (51), 1 Corinthians (7), Galatians (25), Ephesians (1), Philippians (3), 1 Timothy (2), Hebrews (13), James (7)

Strong's Lexicon — N