Strong's Number G3551

νόμος

nomos · nom'-os

Transliteration:

nomos{nom'-os}

Word Origin:

from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals)

TDNT:

4:1022,646

Part of Speech:

noun masculine

Strong's Definition:

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

Usage in the KJV:

law 197

Total: 197
Occurs 194 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command
1. of any law whatsoever
  1. a law or rule producing a state approved of God
    1. by the observance of which is approved of God
  2. a precept or injunction
  3. the rule of action prescribed by reason
2. of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents
3. the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, esp. the precept concerning love
4. the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT