nomos · law

What it means

nomos (νόμος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “law”.

In the Gospels, above all the law of Moses, the Torah.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The instructions God gave Israel through Moses; also, the whole of Scripture.
2. A rule, or something that drives you to act.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Law. Abbott-Smith: usage, custom, law. In the New Testament it is usually the law of Moses, the Torah; sometimes the whole Old Testament, or a rule in general. From the same family are νομικός, “expert in the law”, and ἄνομος, “lawless”.

• The law of Moses Luke 2:22Luke 2:39
• “The law and the prophets” Luke 16:16Matthew 5:18
• “Under law” Romans 6:14Galatians 3:23
• A rule at work: “another law in my members” Romans 7:23
• “The royal law”: loving one's neighbor James 2:8

How we translate it

“Law” 191 times, “laws” 2. This edition always writes “law”, with no deviations.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• law ×191
• laws ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×8
• Luke×9
• John×14
• Acts×17
• Romans×74
• 1 Corinthians×9
• Galatians×32
• Ephesians×1
• Philippians×3
• 1 Timothy×2
• Hebrews×14
• James×10

• Matthew 5:17

  “Do not think that I came to abolish the law or the prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.

• Matthew 5:18

  For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one iota or one stroke will ever pass from the law until all things take place.

• Matthew 7:12

  So everything that you want people to do to you, so also you do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

• Matthew 11:13

  For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John;

• Matthew 12:5

  Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are innocent?

• Matthew 22:36

  “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

• Matthew 22:40

  On these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets.”

• Matthew 23:23

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you tithe the mint and the dill and the cumin, and you have left aside the weightier things of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without leaving aside those.

• Luke 2:22

  And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

• Luke 2:23

  (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb will be called holy to the Lord”),

• Luke 2:24

  and to offer a sacrifice according to what was said in the law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

• Luke 2:27

  And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, for them to do for him according to the custom of the law,

• Luke 2:39

  And when they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town, Nazareth.

• Luke 10:26

  And he said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

• Luke 16:16

  The law and the prophets were until John; since then the kingdom of God is being proclaimed as good news, and everyone forces his way into it.

• Luke 16:17

  But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of the law to fall.

• Luke 24:44

  And he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”

• John 1:17

  because the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

• John 1:45

  Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, “We have found the one of whom Moses in the Law and the prophets wrote: Jesus son of Joseph, the one from Nazareth.”

• John 7:19

  Did not Moses give you the law? And none of you keeps the law. Why are you seeking to kill me?”

• John 7:23

  If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?

• John 7:49

  But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”

• John 7:51

  “Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing?”

• John 8:17

  And in your law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.

• John 10:34

  Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

• John 12:34

  So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever. And how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

• John 15:25

  But this is so that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’

• John 18:31

  So Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.”

• John 19:7

  The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

• Acts 6:13

  and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law;

• Acts 7:53

  you who received the law as ordained by angels and did not keep it.”

• Acts 13:15

  And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, speak.”

• Acts 13:38

  So let it be known to you, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is announced to you, and from all things from which you could not be declared righteous by the law of Moses,

• Acts 15:5

  But some of those from the party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”

• Acts 18:13

  saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law.”

• Acts 18:15

  but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I do not want to be a judge of these things.”

• Acts 21:20

  And when they heard it, they glorified God, and they said to him, “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

• Acts 21:24

  Take these men, purify yourself with them, and pay the expenses for them so that they may shave their head, and all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk in order, keeping the law.

• Acts 21:28

  crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place; and moreover he has even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”

• Acts 22:3

  “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

And 153 more times.