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 φυλάξασθε τὸν νόμον τοῦτον κατὰ καιροὺσ ὡρῶν, ἀφ̓ ἡμερῶν εἰσ ἡμέρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 13:10)
  • εἶπε δὲ Κύριοσ πρὸσ Μωυσῆν. ἕωσ τίνοσ οὐ βούλεσθε εἰσακούειν τὰσ ἐντολάσ μου καὶ τὸν νόμον μου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 16:28)
  • ὅταν γὰρ γένηται αὐτοῖσ ἀντιλογία καὶ ἔλθωσι πρόσ με, διακρίνω ἕκαστον καὶ συμβιβάζω αὐτοὺσ τὰ προστάγματα τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τὸν νόμον αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 18:16)
  • καὶ διαμαρτύρῃ αὐτοῖσ τὰ προστάγματα τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τὸν νόμον αὐτοῦ καὶ σημανεῖσ αὐτοῖσ τὰσ ὁδούσ, ἐν αἷσ πορεύσονται ἐν αὐταῖσ, καὶ τὰ ἔργα ἃ ποιήσουσι. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 18:20)
  • καὶ εἶπε Κύριοσ πρὸσ Μωυσῆν. ἀνάβηθι πρόσ με εἰσ τὸ ὄροσ καὶ ἴσθι ἐκεῖ. καὶ δώσω σοι τὰ πυξία τὰ λίθινα, τὸν νόμον καὶ τὰσ ἐντολάσ, ἃσ ἔγραψα νομοθετῆσαι αὐτοῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 24:12)

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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