νόμιμος
lawful, customary
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where νόμιμος appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 57 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 26:5 νόμιμος Because Abraam your father listened to my voice, and kept my injunctions, and my commandments, and my ordinances, and my statutes.
- Exodus 12:14 νόμιμος And this day shall be to you a memorial, and you⌃ shall keep it a feast to the Lord through all your generations; you⌃ shall keep it a feast for a perpetual ordinance.
- Leviticus 3:17 νόμιμος It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your habitations; you⌃ shall eat no fat and no blood.
- Numbers 10:8 νόμιμος And the priests the sons of Aaron shall sound with the trumpets; and it shall be a perpetual ordinance for you throughout your generations.
- Proverbs 3:1 νόμιμος My son, forget not my laws; but let your heart keep my words:
- Jeremiah 10:3 νόμιμος For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.
- Ezekiel 5:6 νόμιμος And you shall declare my ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and my statutes to the sinful one of the countries round about her: because they have rejected my ordinances, and have not walked in my statutes.
- Hosea 8:12 νόμιμος I will write down a multitude of commands for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, even the beloved altars.
- Micah 6:15 νόμιμος You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall press the olive, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and shall make wine, but you⌃ shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of my people shall be utterly abolished.
- Zechariah 1:6 νόμιμος But do you⌃ receive my words and my ordinances, all that I command by my Spirit to my servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers; and they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has he done to us.
- Malachi 3:7 νόμιμος but you⌃, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained from the iniquities of your fathers: you⌃ have perverted my statutes, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty. But you⌃ said, Wherein shall we return?
About this word
About this word
νόμιμος (nómimos), “lawful, customary,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 57 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →