νομοθετέω
to enact
‘to enact’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3549 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 7:11 νενομοθέτηται perf pass ind 3sg Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
- Hebrews 8:6 νενομοθέτηται perf pass ind 3sg But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
νομοθετεω — transliterated nomothetéō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to enact.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Hebrews. Its earliest occurrence is Hebrews 7:11. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3549 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 2 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Received the law 1×, Was established 1×
- American Standard Version: Hath been enacted 1×, Received the law 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Is founded 1×, Received law 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Had been given 1×, Has been legislated 1×, Law 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3549 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3549 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3549 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3549 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- laws are enacted or prescribed for one, to be legislated for, furnished with laws
- to sanction by law, enact
Word origin
Derived from νομοθετης (nomothétēs) (G3550) — lawgiver.
From G3550 ; to legislate that is (passively) to have (the Mosaic) enactments injoined be sanctioned (by them): - establish receive the law.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3549, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νομοθετεω appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 3 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 24:12 νομοθετέω
- Deuteronomy 17:10 νομοθετέω
- Psalms 24:8 νομοθετέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3549) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 24:12 νομοθετέω Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."
- Deuteronomy 17:10 νομοθετέω You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
- Psalms 24:8 νομοθετέω Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.
- Psalms 24:12 νομοθετέω
- Psalms 26:11 νομοθετέω But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
- Psalms 83:7 νομοθετέω Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
- Psalms 118:33 νομοθετέω
- Psalms 118:102 νομοθετέω
- Psalms 118:104 νομοθετέω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3549) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
