Greek adjective · G3544
νομικός
nomikosnom-ik-os'
relating to law; learned in the law
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nomikós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3544is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3544
according (or pertaining) to law, i.e. legal (ceremonially); as noun, an expert in the (Mosaic) law
The King James renders it: about the law, lawyer.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nomikos is rendered "relating to law; learned in the law". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "relating to law".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 22:35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
Matthew 22:35νομικὸς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: relating to law, and learned in the law.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| relating to lawμάχαι, Tit.3:9. | Tagged as
| WhereTitus 3:9But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law… |
| learned in the lawas subst. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 22:35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question: |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- νομικοῖς2
- νομικὰς1
- νομικοὶ1
- νομικὸν1
- νομικός1
- νομικὸς1
- νομικοὺς1
- νομικῶν1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural2A-DPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2A-NSM
- adjective · accusative (object) · feminine plural1A-APF
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural1A-APM
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1A-GPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
Matthew
one use
One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
- νομικὸςnomikosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a lawyer
Luke
six uses
But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.
- νομικοὶnomikoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: lawyers
One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
- νομικόςnomikosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a lawyer
One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”
- νομικῶνnomikonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: lawyers
“Woe to you as well, experts in the law!” He replied. “You weigh men down with heavy burdens, but you yourselves will not lift a finger to lighten their load.
- νομικοῖςnomikoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: lawyers
Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
- νομικοῖςnomikoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: lawyers
So Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
- νομικοὺςnomikousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: lawyers
Titus
two uses
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.
- νομικὰςnomikasadjective · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: about Law
Do your best to equip Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that they will have everything they need.
- νομικὸνnomikonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: lawyer
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.