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 ἐπὶ ὄροσ Σινὰ κατέβησ καὶ ἐλάλησασ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἔδωκασ αὐτοῖσ κρίματα εὐθέα καὶ νόμουσ ἀληθείασ, προστάγματα καὶ ἐντολὰσ ἀγαθάσ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 9:13)
  • καὶ ἀπήγγειλαν αὐτῷ κατὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ, ὡσ δεῖ ποιῆσαι Ἀστὶν τῇ βασιλίσσῃ, ὅτι οὐκ ἐποίησε τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέωσ προσταχθέντα διὰ τῶν εὐνούχων. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 1:32)
  • εἰ οὖν δοκεῖ τῷ βασιλεῖ, προσταξάτω βασιλικόν, καὶ γραφήτω κατὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ Μήδων καὶ Περσῶν. καὶ μὴ ἄλλωσ χρησάσθω, μηδὲ εἰσελθέτω ἔτι ἡ βασίλισσα πρὸσ αὐτόν, καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτῆσ δότω ὁ βασιλεὺσ γυναικὶ κρείττονι αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 1:35)
  • καὶ τοὺσ τρεῖσ νομοὺσ τοὺσ προστεθέντασ τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ ἀπὸ τῆσ χώρασ Σαμαρείασ προστεθήτω τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ πρὸσ τὸ λογισθῆναι τοῦ γενέσθαι ὑφ̓ ἕνα, τοῦ μὴ ὑπακοῦσαι ἄλλησ ἐξουσίασ ἀλλ̓ ἢ τοῦ ἀρχιερέωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 10:38)
  • ἑστάκαμεν οὖν αὐτοῖσ τά τε ὅρια τῆσ Ἰουδαίασ καὶ τοὺσ τρεῖσ νομούσ, Ἀφαίρεμα καὶ Λύδδαν καὶ Ραμαθέμ, οἵτινεσ προσετέθησαν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ ἀπὸ τῆσ Σαμαρείτιδοσ, καὶ πάντα τὰ συγκυροῦντα αὐτοῖσ πᾶσι τοῖσ θυσιάζουσιν εἰσ Ἱεροσόλυμα, ἀντὶ τῶν βασιλικῶν, ὧν ἐλάμβανεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ παῤ αὐτῶν τὸ πρότερον κατ̓ ἐνιαυτὸν ἀπὸ τῶν γεννημάτων τῆσ γῆσ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀκροδρύων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 11:34)

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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