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νόμος

nomos

nom'-os

Strong's 1890 spelling: nómos

law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

law.

  • 192
    occurrencesin the New Testament
  • 12 of 27
    New Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 20
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 192 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 20

  • νόμου55
  • νόμον48
  • νόμος27
  • νόμῳ27
  • νόμον,6
  • νόμου·5
  • νόμος,3
  • νόμου,3
  • νόμου.3
  • νόμον.2
  • νόμον·2
  • νόμους2

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 39

  • law86
  • [the] Law20
  • [the] law13
  • Law12
  • law,7
  • law;5
  • a law4
  • of [the] Law4
  • of law4
  • law.3
  • the law3
  • law?2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 5

  • noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular67
  • noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular59
  • noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular34
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular30
  • noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • N-GSM · 67
  • N-ASM · 59
  • N-NSM · 34
  • N-DSM · 30
  • N-APM · 2

All 192, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Romans carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Matthew8 occurrences
Luke9 occurrences
John14 occurrences
Acts16 occurrences
Romans74 occurrences
1 Corinthians9 occurrences
Galatians32 occurrences
Ephesians1 occurrence
Philippians3 occurrences
1 Timothy2 occurrences
Hebrews14 occurrences
James10 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).