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

  • αὕτη ἡ διαστολὴ τοῦ νόμου, ὅσα συνέταξε Κύριοσ λέγων. λάλησον τοῖσ υἱοῖσ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ λαβέτωσαν πρὸσ σὲ δάμαλιν πυρρὰν ἄμωμον, ἥτισ οὐκ ἔχει ἐν αὐτῇ μῶμον, καὶ ᾗ οὐκ ἐπεβλήθη ἐπ’ αὐτὴν ζυγόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 19:2)
  • καὶ εἶπεν Ἐλεάζαρ ὁ ἱερεὺσ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ τοὺσ ἐρχομένουσ ἐκ τῆσ παρατάξεωσ τοῦ πολέμου. τοῦτο τὸ δικαίωμα τοῦ νόμου, ὃ συνέταξε Κύριοσ τῷ Μωυσῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 31:21)
  • καὶ γράψεισ ἐπὶ τῶν λίθων τούτων πάντασ τοὺσ λόγουσ τοῦ νόμου τούτου, ὡσ ἂν διαβῆτε τὸν Ἰορδάνην, ἡνίκα ἂν εἰσέλθητε εἰσ τὴν γῆν, ἣν Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τῶν πατέρων σου δίδωσί σοι, γῆν ρέουσαν γάλα καὶ μέλι, ὃν τρόπον εἶπε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ τῶν πατέρων σού σοι. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 27:3)
  • ἐπικατάρατοσ πᾶσ ἄνθρωποσ ὃσ οὐκ ἐμμενεῖ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖσ λόγοισ τοῦ νόμου τούτου ποιῆσαι αὐτούσ. καὶ ἐροῦσι πᾶσ ὁ λαόσ. γένοιτο. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 27:26)
  • ἐὰν μὴ εἰσακούσῃσ ποιεῖν πάντα τὰ ρήματα τοῦ νόμου τούτου τὰ γεγραμμένα ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ τούτῳ φοβεῖσθαι τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἔντιμον τὸ θαυμαστὸν τοῦτο, Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σου, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:58)

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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