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νόμος

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
νόμος, -ου, ὁ
Greek transliteration: 
nomos
Simplified transliteration: 
nomos
Numbers
Strong's number: 
3551
GK Number: 
3795
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
194
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-2a
Gloss: 

law, regulation, principle

Definition: 

law, regulation, principle; this has a broad range of meanings and referents, ranging from law as a principle revealed in nature or reason, to the OT Scriptures as a body, the first five books of the Scriptures, or any single command of the Scriptures

a law, Rom. 4:15; 1 Tim. 1:9; the Mosaic law, Mt. 5:17, et al. freq.; the Old Testament Scripture, Jn. 10:34; a legal tie, Rom. 7:2, 3; a law, a rule, standard, Rom. 3:27; a rule of life and conduct, Gal. 6:2, Jas. 1:25

Greek-English Concordance for νόμος

Romans 2:15 They show that the work of the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) is written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their conflicting thoughts accusing or else defending them,
Romans 2:17 But if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc), and boast in God,
Romans 2:18 and know his will, and approve the things that excel because you are instructed by the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc),
Romans 2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of little children, having in the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) the embodiment of knowledge and of truth —
Romans 2:23 You who boast in the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc), by your breaking of the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) you dishonor God!
Romans 2:25 to be sure, circumcision is of value if you practice the law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc), but if you are a transgressor of the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Romans 2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
Romans 2:27 And will not the one who by nature is uncircumcised yet fulfills the law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc) judge you who have the written code and circumcision yet are a transgressor of the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc)?
Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc) says, it speaks to those who are under the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc), so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
Romans 3:20 So by the works of the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) no flesh will be justified before him, because through the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:21 But now, apart from the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) (although attested by the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) and the prophets) the righteousness of God has been disclosed.
Romans 3:27 Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc)? By a law of works? No, but by the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) of faith.
Romans 3:28 For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc).
Romans 3:31 Do we therefore nullify the law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc) through faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc).
Romans 4:13 For the promise that he would be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 4:14 if the heirs are those who follow the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), then faith is meaningless and the promise is void.
Romans 4:15 For the Law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc) brings about wrath, but where there is no law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc), there can be no violation.
Romans 4:16 For this reason the promise is based on faith, that it may depend on grace and be made certain to all his descendants, not only to those who are under the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Romans 5:13 For sin was in the world before the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) was given, but sin is not charged when there is no law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc).
Romans 5:20 Now the law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc) came in so that the transgression might increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
Romans 6:14 For sin will not have mastery over you, since you are not under law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc) but under grace.
Romans 6:15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc) but under grace? By no means!
Romans 7:1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law) (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc), that the law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc) is binding on a person only so long as he lives?
Romans 7:2 Thus a married woman is bound by (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) of marriage.
Romans 7:3 Accordingly, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), so that she is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
Romans 7:4 So then, my brothers, you also have died to the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) through the body of Christ that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for God.
Romans 7:5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death.
Romans 7:6 But now we have been released from the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not under the old written code.
Romans 7:7 What then shall we say? Is the law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc) sin? By no means! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc); that is, I would not have known what it means to covet had not the law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc) said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 7:8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. (For apart from the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), sin is dead.)
Romans 7:9 I was once alive apart from the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), but when the commandment came, sin came to life
Romans 7:12 So then, the law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc) is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc) is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
Romans 7:16 But if I am doing what I do not want to do, I agree with the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc), that it is good.
Romans 7:21 So I find it to be a law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc) that when I want to do good, evil is present in me.
Romans 7:22 For I joyfully agree with the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) of God in the inner man,
Romans 7:23 but I see a different law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc) in my members; it wages war against the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) of my mind and makes me captive to the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) of sin dwelling in my members.
Romans 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) of sin.
Romans 8:2 For the law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc) of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) of sin and of death.
Romans 8:3 For what the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God, by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, condemned sin in the flesh,
Romans 8:4 so that the righteous requirement of the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc) might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to the law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) of God; in fact, it cannot.
Romans 9:31 but Israel, even though it pursued a law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc) that would produce righteousness, did not attain it (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc)?
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), so now there is righteousness for everyone who believes.
Romans 10:5 For Moses writes regarding the righteousness that is based on the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc), “The person committed to these things must live by them.”
Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc).
Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law (nomou | νόμου | gen sg masc).
1 Corinthians 9:8 Am I saying these things from a merely human point of view? Or does not the Law (nomos | νόμος | nom sg masc) say the same?
1 Corinthians 9:9 For in the Law (nomō | νόμῳ | dat sg masc) of Moses it is written, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” It is not for oxen that God is concerned, is it?
1 Corinthians 9:20 To the Jews I became as a Jew that I might win Jews. To those under the law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc) I became as one under the law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc) (though I myself am not under the law) (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc) that I might win those under the law (nomon | νόμον | acc sg masc).

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