νόμος nomos

Greek word for “law” · Strong’s G3551 · used 194 times in 154 verses

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Meaning

νόμος, -ου, ὁ; (νέμω, to deal out, distribute);

How it is translated

Glosses given for nomos in context, with how often each is used:

• law 180
• law? 3
• law are 2
• principle 2
• law is 2
• laws 2
• law! 1
• principle? 1
• law — 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Romans 7 (16), Galatians 3 (12), Romans 2 (11), Romans 3 (6), Luke 2 (5), Galatians 5 (5), Hebrews 7 (5), James 2 (5), John 7 (4), Romans 4 (4)

Forms

• νόμου 67
• νόμον 59
• νόμος 33
• νόμῳ 32
• νόμους 2
• Νόμος 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with nomos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• κατά kata “according to” 29
• Μωϋσῆς Mōusēs, Mōsēs “Moses” 14
• ἁμαρτία hamartia “sin” 16
• ὑπό hupo “by/under” 15
• πίστις pistis “faith” 15
• γράφω graphō “to write” 13
• εἰ ei “if” 17
• ἤ ē “or” 14
• προφήτης prophētēs “prophet” 11
• ἐντολή entolē “commandment” 9
• δικαιόω dikaioō “to justify” 8
• δικαιοσύνη dikaiosunē “righteousness” 9

Key verses

The verses using nomos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 5:18 — For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
• Luke 24:44 — And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law…
• John 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
• Romans 3:19 — Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty…
• Romans 5:20 — Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
• Romans 8:3 — For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in…
• Romans 8:7 — Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
• Galatians 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in…
• Galatians 3:13 — Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
• Galatians 4:4 — But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• Philippians 3:9 — And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God…
• Hebrews 8:10 — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.