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 ἔγραψε τὰ ρήματα ταῦτα εἰσ βιβλίον νόμων τοῦ Θεοῦ. καὶ ἔλαβε λίθον μέγαν καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτὸν Ἰησοῦσ ὑπὸ τὴν τερέμινθον ἀπέναντι Κυρίου. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 24:26)
  • καὶ τοὺσ υἱοὺσ τῶν παταξάντων οὐκ ἐθανάτωσε, καθὼσ γέγραπται ἐν βιβλίῳ νόμων Μωυσῆ, ὡσ ἐνετείλατο Κύριοσ λέγων. οὐκ ἀποθανοῦνται πατέρεσ ὑπὲρ υἱῶν, καὶ υἱοὶ οὐκ ἀποθανοῦνται ὑπὲρ πατέρων, ὅτι ἀλλ̓ ἢ ἕκαστοσ ἐν ταῖσ ἁμαρτίαισ αὐτοῦ ἀποθανεῖται. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 14:6)
  • καὶ ἐλάλησε πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα Ἀρταξέρξησ λέγων. ὑπάρχει ἔθνοσ διεσπαρμένον ἐν τοῖσ ἔθνεσιν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ βασιλείᾳ σου, οἱ δὲ νόμοι αὐτῶν ἔξαλλοι παρὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, τῶν δὲ νόμων τοῦ βασιλέωσ παρακούουσι, καὶ οὐ συμφέρει τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐᾶσαι αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 3:8)
  • ε διειληφότεσ οὖν τόδε τὸ ἔθνοσ μονώτατον ἐν ἀντιπαραγωγῇ παντὶ διαπαντὸσ ἀνθρώπῳ κείμενον, διαγωγὴν νόμων ξενίζουσαν παραλλάσσον καὶ δυσνοοῦν τοῖσ ἡμετέροισ πράγμασι τὰ χείριστα συντελοῦν κακὰ καὶ πρὸσ τὸ μὴ τὴν βασιλείαν εὐσταθείασ τυγχάνειν. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 3:18)
  • καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ τρίτου τῆσ σπορᾶσ καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἡμίσουσ τοῦ καρποῦ τοῦ ξυλίνου τοῦ ἐπιβάλλοντόσ μοι λαβεῖν, ἀφίημι ἀπὸ τῆσ σήμερον καὶ ἐπέκεινα τοῦ λαβεῖν ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ Ἰούδα καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν τριῶν νομῶν τῶν προστιθεμένων αὐτῇ ἀπὸ τῆσ Σαμαρείτιδοσ καὶ Γαλιλαίασ, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ σήμερον ἡμέρασ καὶ εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα χρόνον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 10:30)

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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