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

  • Εἶπε δὲ Κύριοσ πρὸσ Μωυσῆν καὶ Ἀαρών. οὗτοσ ὁ νόμοσ τοῦ πάσχα. πᾶσ ἀλλογενὴσ οὐκ ἔδεται ἀπ̓ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 12:43)
  • νόμοσ εἷσ ἔσται τῷ ἐγχωρίῳ καὶ τῷ προσελθόντι προσηλύτῳ ἐν ὑμῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 12:49)
  • καὶ ἔσται σοι σημεῖον ἐπὶ τῆσ χειρόσ σου καὶ μνημόσυνον πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν σου, ὅπωσ ἂν γένηται ὁ νόμοσ Κυρίου ἐν τῷ στόματί σου. ἐν γὰρ χειρὶ κραταιᾷ ἐξήγαγέ σε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 13:9)
  • ἔντειλαι Ἀαρὼν καὶ τοῖσ υἱοῖσ αὐτοῦ, λέγων. οὗτοσ ὁ νόμοσ τῆσ ὁλοκαυτώσεωσ. αὐτὴ ἡ ὁλοκαύτωσισ ἐπὶ τῆσ καύσεωσ αὐτῆσ ἐπὶ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου ὅλην τὴν νύκτα ἕωσ τὸ πρωί̈, καὶ τὸ πῦρ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου καυθήσεται ἐπ̓ αὐτοῦ, οὐ σβεσθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 6:2)
  • Οὗτοσ ὁ νόμοσ τῆσ θυσίασ, ἣν προσάξουσιν αὐτὴν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἀαρὼν ἔναντι Κυρίου ἀπέναντι τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 6:7)

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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