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

  • κατασκέψεται ὄρη νομὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ ὀπίσω παντὸσ χλωροῦ ζητεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 39:8)
  • ἔκχεον τὸν θυμόν σου ἐπὶ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ εἰδότα σε καὶ ἐπὶ γενεάσ, αἳ τὸ ὄνομά σου οὐκ ἐπεκαλέσαντο, ὅτι κατέφαγον τὸν Ἰακὼβ καὶ ἐξανήλωσαν αὐτὸν καὶ τὴν νομὴν αὐτοῦ ἠρήμωσαν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 10:21)
  • καὶ ἐγὼ εἰσδέξομαι τοὺσ καταλοίπουσ τοῦ λαοῦ μου ἐπὶ πάσησ τῆσ γῆσ, οὗ ἔξωσα αὐτοὺσ ἐκεῖ, καὶ καταστήσω αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὴν νομὴν αὐτῶν, καὶ αὐξηθήσονται καὶ πληθυνθήσονται. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 23:3)
  • καὶ ἀποκαταστήσω τὸν Ἰσραὴλ εἰσ τὴν νομὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ νεμήσεται ἐν τῷ Καρμήλῳ καὶ ἐν ὄρει Ἐφραὶμ καὶ ἐν τῷ Γαλαὰδ καὶ πλησθήσεται ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 27:19)
  • Καὶ ἐξῄρθη ἐκ θυγατρὸσ Σιὼν πᾶσα ἡ εὐπρέπεια αὐτῆσ. ἐγένοντο οἱ ἄρχοντεσ αὐτῆσ ὡσ κριοὶ οὐχ εὑρίσκοντεσ νομὴν καὶ ἐπορεύοντο ἐν οὐκ ἰσχύϊ κατὰ πρόσωπον διώκοντοσ. (Septuagint, Lamentationes 1:7)

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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