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

  • Συνέσεωσ τῷ Ἀσάφ. ‐ ΙΝΑΤΙ ἀπώσω, ὁ Θεόσ, εἰσ τέλοσ̣ ὠργίσθη ὁ θυμόσ σου ἐπὶ πρόβατα νομῆσ σου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 73:1)
  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ λαόσ σου καὶ πρόβατα νομῆσ σου ἀνθομολογησόμεθά σοι εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα, εἰσ γενεὰν καὶ γενεὰν ἐξαγγελοῦμεν τὴν αἴνεσίν σου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 78:13)
  • ὅτι αὐτόσ ἐστιν ὁ Θεὸσ ἡμῶν, καὶ ἡμεῖσ λαὸσ νομῆσ αὐτοῦ καὶ πρόβατα χειρὸσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 94:7)
  • γνῶτε ὅτι Κύριοσ, αὐτόσ ἐστιν ὁ Θεὸσ ἡμῶν, αὐτὸσ ἐποίησεν ἡμᾶσ καὶ οὐχ ἡμεῖσ. ἡμεῖσ δὲ λαὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ πρόβατα τῆσ νομῆσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 99:3)
  • Ω οἱ ποιμένεσ οἱ διασκορπίζοντεσ καὶ ἀπολλύοντεσ τὰ πρόβατα τῆσ νομῆσ μου. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 23:1)

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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