G3551

νόμος

nomos

Masculine noun · From a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals)

From a primary νέμω némō (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals); law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle):—law.

Outline

anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command

of any law whatsoever

a law or rule producing a state approved of God

by the observance of which is approved of God

a precept or injunction
the rule of action prescribed by reason

of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents
the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, esp. the precept concerning love
the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT

Usages (3/4)

1 Corinthians 7:39

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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1 Corinthians 9:8

Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

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1 Corinthians 9:9

For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

Quoting Deuteronomy 25:4

¶ Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

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1 Corinthians 9:20

And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

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1 Corinthians 14:21

In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

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1 Corinthians 14:34

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

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1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

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Galatians 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Psalms 23:4 Proverbs 3:5 Habakkuk 2:4 Ecclesiasticus 2:10 2 Maccabees 7:1 Matthew 6:25 2 Corinthians 5:7 Ephesians 2:8 Ephesians 6:16 Hebrews 11:6 2 Peter 2:9

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Galatians 2:19

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

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Galatians 2:21

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

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Galatians 3:2

This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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Galatians 3:5

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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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 the book of the law to do them.

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Galatians 3:11

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Quoting Habakkuk 2:4

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

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Galatians 3:12

And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

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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:

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Galatians 3:17

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

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Galatians 3:18

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

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Galatians 3:19

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

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Galatians 3:21

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

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Galatians 3:23

But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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Galatians 3:24

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

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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,

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made under the law Referring to the law of purification (Leviticus 12).

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Galatians 4:5

To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

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receive the adoption of sons Because the Israelites were put away (Hosea 1:9).

Precepts

Romans 9:4

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Galatians 4:21

Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

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Galatians 5:3

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

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Galatians 5:4

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

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Galatians 5:14

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Quoting Leviticus 19:18

¶ Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

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Galatians 5:18

But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

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Galatians 5:23

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

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Galatians 6:2

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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Galatians 6:13

For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

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Ephesians 2:15

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

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The second half of this verse refers to how the two Kingdoms of Israel will become one again.

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Philippians 3:5

Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

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There was more than one family of the Hebrews, e.g. the Israelites, the Edomites, the Ishmaelites, etc.

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Philippians 3:6

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

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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 by faith:

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1 Timothy 1:8

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

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1 Timothy 1:9

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

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law is not made for a righteous man A righteous man will, by definition, keep the law and therefore have no need for the law.

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Hebrews 7:5

And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:

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Hebrews 7:12

For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

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Hebrews 7:16

Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

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Hebrews 7:19

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

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Hebrews 7:28

For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

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Hebrews 8:4

For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

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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 their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

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The new testament.

Precepts

Ezekiel 36:26

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Hebrews 9:19

For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

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Hebrews 9:22

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

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Hebrews 10:1

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

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Hebrews 10:8

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

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Hebrews 10:16

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

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