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

  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἐξέλιπεν αὐτοὺσ τὰ βρώματα καὶ ἐσπανίσθη πᾶν ὕδωρ, ἐβουλεύσαντο ἐπιβαλεῖν τοῖσ κτήνεσιν αὐτῶν καὶ πάντα, ὅσα διεστείλατο αὐτοῖσ ὁ Θεὸσ ἐν τοῖσ νόμοισ αὐτοῦ μὴ φαγεῖν, διέγνωσαν δαπανῆσαι. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 11:12)
  • δ ἐπέδειξεν ἡμῖν ἐν πάσαισ ταῖσ κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην φυλαῖσ ἀναμεμεῖχθαι δυσμενῆ λαόν τινα τοῖσ νόμοισ ἀντίθετον πρὸσ πᾶν ἔθνοσ τά τε τῶν βασιλέων παραπέμποντασ διηνεκῶσ διατάγματα, πρὸσ τὸ μὴ κατατίθεσθαι τὴν ὑφ̓ ἡμῶν κατευθυνομένην ἀμέμπτωσ συναρχίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 3:17)
  • ὡσ ἐπέταξε αὐτοῖσ χρῆσθαι τοῖσ νόμοισ αὐτῶν ἐν πάσῃ πόλει βοηθῆσαί τε αὐτοῖσ καὶ χρῆσθαι τοῖσ ἀντιδίκοισ αὐτῶν καὶ τοῖσ ἀντικειμένοισ αὐτῶν, ὡσ βούλονται, (Septuagint, Liber Esther 8:11)
  • ο ἡμεῖσ δὲ τοὺσ ὑπὸ τοῦ τρισαλιτηρίου παραδεδομένουσ εἰσ ἀφανισμὸν Ἰουδαίουσ, εὑρίσκομεν οὐ κακούργουσ ὄντασ, δικαιοτάτοισ δὲ πολιτευομένουσ νόμοισ, (Septuagint, Liber Esther 8:27)
  • καὶ κατασταθήσεται ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐν τοῖσ ὀχυρώμασι τοῦ βασιλέωσ τοῖσ μεγάλοισ, καὶ ἐκ τούτων κατασταθήσεται ἐπὶ χρειῶν τῆσ βασιλείασ τῶν οὐσῶν εἰσ πίστιν. καὶ οἱ ἐπ̓ αὐτῶν καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντεσ ἔστωσαν ἐξ αὐτῶν καὶ πορευέσθωσαν τοῖσ νόμοισ αὐτῶν. καθὰ καὶ προσέταξεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἐν γῇ Ἰούδα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 10:37)

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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