Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νόμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νόμος

Structure: νομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. anything assigned, a usage, custom, law, ordinance, custom, custom or law, law, by custom, conventionally
  2. by the law of force, in the fight or scuffle, in actual warfare, to blows
  3. a musical mode or strain
  4. a song, tunes

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ τῇ γυναικὶ ἦν δάμαλισ νομὰσ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ, καὶ ἔσπευσε καὶ ἔθυσεν αὐτὴν καὶ ἔλαβεν ἄλευρα καὶ ἐφύρασε καὶ ἔπεψεν ἄζυμα (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 28:24)
  • καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ἕωσ τοῦ ἐλθεῖν Γέραρα ἕωσ τῶν ἀνατολῶν τῆσ Γαὶ τοῦ ζητῆσαι νομὰσ τοῖσ κτήνεσιν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 4:39)
  • καὶ εὗρον νομὰσ πλείονασ καὶ ἀγαθάσ, καὶ ἡ γῆ πλατεῖα ἐναντίον αὐτῶν καὶ εἰρήνη καὶ ἡσυχία, ὅτι ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν Χὰμ τῶν κατοικούντων ἐκεῖ ἔμπροσθεν. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 4:40)
  • μὴ ἴδοι ἄμελξιν νομάδων, μηδὲ νομὰσ μέλιτοσ καὶ βουτύρου. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 20:17)
  • κατὰ τὰσ νομὰσ αὐτῶν. καὶ ἐνεπλήσθησαν εἰσ πλησμονὴν καὶ ὑψώθησαν αἱ καρδίαι αὐτῶν. ἕνεκα τούτου ἐπελάθοντό μου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 13:6)

Synonyms

  1. a song

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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