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

  • εἶπαν δὲ τῷ Φαραώ. παροικεῖν ἐν τῇ γῇ ἥκαμεν. οὐ γάρ ἐστι νομὴ τοῖσ κτήνεσι τῶν παίδων σου, ἐνίσχυσε γὰρ ὁ λιμὸσ ἐν γῇ Χαναάν. νῦν οὖν κατοικήσωμεν οἱ παῖδέσ σου ἐν γῇ Γεσέμ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 47:4)
  • μὴ προσαγάγῃσ ἀσεβῆ νομῇ δικαίων μηδὲ ἀπατηθῇσ χορτασίᾳ κοιλίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:15)
  • τί ἀποθήσομεν ἑαυτοῖσ̣ ἔκλαυσαν βουκόλια βοῶν, ὅτι οὐχ ὑπῆρχε νομὴ αὐτοῖσ, καὶ τὰ ποίμνια τῶν προβάτων ἠφανίσθησαν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 1:18)
  • ποῦ ἐστι τὸ κατοικητήριον τῶν λεόντων καὶ ἡ νομὴ ἡ οὖσα τοῖσ σκύμνοισ, οὗ ἐπορεύθη λέων τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν ἐκεῖ, σκύμνοσ λέοντοσ καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἐκφοβῶν̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Nahum 2:12)
  • καὶ ἔσται Κρήτη νομὴ ποιμνίων καὶ μάνδρα προβάτων. (Septuagint, Prophetia Sophoniae 2:6)

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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