νόμος
law
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 67 times (34%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 60 times (31%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 34 times (17%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine 32 times (16%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (1%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 195 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3551 appears — 155 distinct verses across 12 books. 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.
Matthew 9 verses
- Matthew 5:17 νόμον n acc sg masc "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.
- Matthew 5:18 νόμου n gen sg masc For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
- Matthew 7:12 νόμος n nom sg masc Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
- Matthew 11:13 νόμος n nom sg masc For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
- Matthew 12:5 νόμῳ n dat sg masc Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?
- Matthew 15:6 νόμον n acc sg masc he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
- Matthew 22:36 νόμῳ n dat sg masc "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
- Matthew 22:40 νόμος n nom sg masc The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
- Matthew 23:23 νόμου n gen sg masc "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Luke 9 verses
- Luke 2:22 νόμον n acc sg masc When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord
- Luke 2:23 νόμῳ n dat sg masc (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),
- Luke 2:24 νόμῳ n dat sg masc and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."
- Luke 2:27 νόμου n gen sg masc He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,
- Luke 2:39 νόμον n acc sg masc When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
- Luke 10:26 νόμῳ n dat sg masc He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?"
- Luke 16:16 νόμος n nom sg masc The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
- Luke 16:17 νόμου n gen sg masc But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
- Luke 24:44 νόμῳ n dat sg masc He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
John 13 verses
- John 1:17 νόμος n nom sg masc For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- John 1:46 νόμῳ n dat sg masc Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
- John 7:19 νόμον νόμον n acc sg masc n acc sg masc Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
- John 7:23 νόμος n nom sg masc If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath?
- John 7:49 νόμον n acc sg masc But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."
- John 7:51 νόμος n nom sg masc "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
- John 8:5 νόμῳ n dat sg masc Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"
- John 8:17 νόμῳ n dat sg masc It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.
- John 10:34 νόμῳ n dat sg masc Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'
- John 12:34 νόμου n gen sg masc The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
- John 15:25 νόμῳ n dat sg masc But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
- John 18:31 νόμον n acc sg masc Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"
- John 19:7 νόμον νόμον n acc sg masc n acc sg masc The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
Acts 17 verses
- Acts 6:13 νόμου n gen sg masc and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
- Acts 7:53 νόμον n acc sg masc You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!"
- Acts 13:15 νόμου n gen sg masc After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."
- Acts 13:39 νόμῳ n dat sg masc and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Acts 15:5 νόμον n acc sg masc But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses."
- Acts 18:13 νόμον n acc sg masc saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."
- Acts 18:15 νόμου n gen sg masc but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."
- Acts 21:20 νόμου n gen sg masc They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
- Acts 21:24 νόμον n acc sg masc Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.
- Acts 21:28 νόμου n gen sg masc crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"
- Acts 22:3 νόμου n gen sg masc "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.
- Acts 22:12 νόμον n acc sg masc One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
- Acts 23:3 νόμον n acc sg masc Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?"
- Acts 23:29 νόμου n gen sg masc I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
- Acts 24:14 νόμον n acc sg masc But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
- Acts 25:8 νόμον n acc sg masc while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all."
- Acts 28:23 νόμου n gen sg masc When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
Romans 50 verses
- Romans 2:12 νόμῳ νόμου n dat sg masc n gen sg masc For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
- Romans 2:13 νόμου νόμου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
- Romans 2:14 νόμον νόμου νόμον νόμος n acc sg masc n gen sg masc n acc sg masc n nom sg masc (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
- Romans 2:15 νόμου n gen sg masc in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
- Romans 2:17 νόμῳ n dat sg masc Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
- Romans 2:18 νόμου n gen sg masc and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
- Romans 2:20 νόμῳ n dat sg masc a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
- Romans 2:23 νόμῳ νόμου n dat sg masc n gen sg masc You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
- Romans 2:25 νόμον νόμου n acc sg masc n gen sg masc For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
- Romans 2:26 νόμου n gen sg masc If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
- Romans 2:27 νόμον νόμου n acc sg masc n gen sg masc Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
- Romans 3:19 νόμος νόμῳ n nom sg masc n dat sg masc Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
- Romans 3:20 νόμου νόμου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
- Romans 3:21 νόμου νόμου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
- Romans 3:27 νόμου νόμου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
- Romans 3:28 νόμου n gen sg masc We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
- Romans 3:31 νόμον νόμον n acc sg masc n acc sg masc Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
- Romans 4:13 νόμου n gen sg masc For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
- Romans 4:14 νόμου n gen sg masc For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
- Romans 4:15 νόμος νόμος n nom sg masc n nom sg masc For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
- Romans 4:16 νόμου n gen sg masc For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
- Romans 5:13 νόμου νόμου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
- Romans 5:20 νόμος n nom sg masc The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;
- Romans 6:14 νόμον n acc sg masc For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
- Romans 6:15 νόμον n acc sg masc What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
- Romans 7:1 νόμον νόμος n acc sg masc n nom sg masc Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
- Romans 7:2 νόμῳ νόμου n dat sg masc n gen sg masc For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
- Romans 7:3 νόμου n gen sg masc So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
- Romans 7:4 νόμῳ n dat sg masc Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.
- Romans 7:5 νόμου n gen sg masc For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
- Romans 7:6 νόμου n gen sg masc But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
- Romans 7:7 νόμος νόμου νόμος n nom sg masc n gen sg masc n nom sg masc What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
- Romans 7:8 νόμου n gen sg masc But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
- Romans 7:9 νόμου n gen sg masc I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
- Romans 7:12 νόμος n nom sg masc Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
- Romans 7:14 νόμος n nom sg masc For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
- Romans 7:16 νόμῳ n dat sg masc But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
- Romans 7:21 νόμον n acc sg masc I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
- Romans 7:22 νόμῳ n dat sg masc For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
- Romans 7:23 νόμον νόμῳ νόμῳ n acc sg masc n dat sg masc n dat sg masc but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
- Romans 7:25 νόμῳ νόμῳ n dat sg masc n dat sg masc I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.
- Romans 8:2 νόμος νόμου n nom sg masc n gen sg masc For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
- Romans 8:3 νόμου n gen sg masc For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
- Romans 8:4 νόμου n gen sg masc that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
- Romans 8:7 νόμῳ n dat sg masc because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
- Romans 9:31 νόμον νόμον n acc sg masc n acc sg masc but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.
- Romans 10:4 νόμου n gen sg masc For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
- Romans 10:5 νόμου n gen sg masc For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."
- Romans 13:8 νόμον n acc sg masc Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- Romans 13:10 νόμου n gen sg masc Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
1 Corinthians 6 verses
- 1 Corinthians 9:8 νόμος n nom sg masc Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?
- 1 Corinthians 9:9 νόμῳ n dat sg masc For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,
- 1 Corinthians 9:20 νόμον νόμον νόμον νόμον n acc sg masc n acc sg masc n acc sg masc n acc sg masc To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
- 1 Corinthians 14:21 νόμῳ n dat sg masc In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."
- 1 Corinthians 14:34 νόμος n nom sg masc let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
- 1 Corinthians 15:56 νόμος n nom sg masc The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Galatians 25 verses
- Galatians 2:16 νόμου νόμου νόμου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc n gen sg masc yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
- Galatians 2:19 νόμου νόμῳ n gen sg masc n dat sg masc For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
- Galatians 2:21 νόμου n gen sg masc I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
- Galatians 3:2 νόμου n gen sg masc I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
- Galatians 3:5 νόμου n gen sg masc He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
- Galatians 3:10 νόμου νόμου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
- Galatians 3:11 νόμῳ n dat sg masc Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."
- Galatians 3:12 νόμος n nom sg masc The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
- Galatians 3:13 νόμου n gen sg masc Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
- Galatians 3:17 νόμος n nom sg masc Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
- Galatians 3:18 νόμου n gen sg masc For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
- Galatians 3:19 νόμος n nom sg masc What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
- Galatians 3:21 νόμος νόμος νόμου n nom sg masc n nom sg masc n gen sg masc Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law.
- Galatians 3:23 νόμον n acc sg masc But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, shut up to the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
- Galatians 3:24 νόμος n nom sg masc So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- Galatians 4:4 νόμον n acc sg masc But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
- Galatians 4:5 νόμον n acc sg masc that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
- Galatians 4:21 νόμον νόμον n acc sg masc n acc sg masc Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?
- Galatians 5:3 νόμον n acc sg masc Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
- Galatians 5:4 νόμῳ n dat sg masc You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
- Galatians 5:14 νόμος n nom sg masc For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
- Galatians 5:18 νόμον n acc sg masc But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
- Galatians 5:23 νόμος n nom sg masc gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
- Galatians 6:2 νόμον n acc sg masc Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
- Galatians 6:13 νόμον n acc sg masc For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
Ephesians 1 verse
Philippians 3 verses
- Philippians 3:5 νόμον n acc sg masc circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
- Philippians 3:6 νόμῳ n dat sg masc concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
- Philippians 3:9 νόμου n gen sg masc and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
1 Timothy 2 verses
- 1 Timothy 1:8 νόμος n nom sg masc But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
- 1 Timothy 1:9 νόμος n nom sg masc as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
Hebrews 13 verses
- Hebrews 7:5 νόμον n acc sg masc They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the loins of Abraham,
- Hebrews 7:12 νόμου n gen sg masc For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
- Hebrews 7:16 νόμον n acc sg masc who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
- Hebrews 7:19 νόμος n nom sg masc (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
- Hebrews 7:28 νόμος νόμον n nom sg masc n acc sg masc For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
- Hebrews 8:4 νόμον n acc sg masc For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
- Hebrews 8:10 νόμους n acc pl masc "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, And they will be to me a people.
- Hebrews 9:19 νόμον n acc sg masc For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
- Hebrews 9:22 νόμον n acc sg masc According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
- Hebrews 10:1 νόμος n nom sg masc For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
- Hebrews 10:8 νόμον n acc sg masc Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),
- Hebrews 10:16 νόμους n acc pl masc "This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,
- Hebrews 10:28 νόμον n acc sg masc A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
James 7 verses
- James 1:25 νόμον n acc sg masc But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
- James 2:8 νόμον n acc sg masc However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
- James 2:9 νόμου n gen sg masc But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
- James 2:10 νόμον n acc sg masc For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all.
- James 2:11 νόμου n gen sg masc For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
- James 2:12 νόμου n gen sg masc So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
- James 4:11 νόμου νόμον νόμον νόμου n gen sg masc n acc sg masc n acc sg masc n gen sg masc Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
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“law” is the headline sense of the Greek noun νομος (nómos). First canonically at Matthew 5:17, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 155 verses — common. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Romans. It shares a root with νομη, νομιζω and νομικος. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
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About this word
Strong's G3551 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 →
- 155
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 155 distinct verses.
- 12 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
- #81
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 81 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 155 occurrences in the concordance →
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 155 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 87 verses · 56%
- Gospels 31 verses · 20%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 26 verses · 17%
- Johannine 13 verses · 8%
- Hebrews 13 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 7 verses · 5%
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: Law 188×, Is the law 3×, Laws 2×
- American Standard Version: Law 179×, Is the law 4×, Laws 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Law 184×, Laws 2×, Principle 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Law 193×, Of 5×, The 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3551 across 197 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3551 across 193 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3551 across 189 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3551 across 206 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command
Word origin
Origin: from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals)
From a primary word νέμω nemō (to parcel out especially food or grazing to animals); law (through the idea of prescriptive usage ) generally ( regulation ) specifically (of Moses [including the volume]; also of the Gospel) or figuratively (a principle ): - law.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3551 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| νόμου nómou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 5:18 | 67 |
| νόμον nómon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 5:17 | 60 |
| νόμος nómos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 7:12 | 34 |
| νόμῳ nómō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 12:5 | 32 |
| νόμους nómous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 8:10 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3551, 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.
Derived from this word
- νομη nomḗ G3542 pasturage
- νομιζω nomízō G3543 to hold custom
- νομικος nomikós G3544 learned in law
- νομιμως nomímōs G3545 lawfully
- νομοδιδασκαλος nomodidáskalos G3547 law teacher
- νομοθετης nomothétēs G3550 lawgiver
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νομος appears 243 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 230 verses in 28 books.
- 243
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 230
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 28 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 28 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 12:43 νόμος
- Leviticus 6:2 νόμος
- Numbers 5:29 νόμος
- Deuteronomy 1:5 νόμος
- Joshua 1:8 νόμος
- 2 Samuel 7:19 νόμος
- 1 Kings 2:3 νόμος
- 2 Kings 10:31 νόμος
- 1 Chronicles 16:40 νόμος
- 2 Chronicles 6:16 νόμος
- Ezra 3:2 νόμος
- Esther 1:8 νόμος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3551) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 230. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 12:43 νόμος Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it,
- Exodus 12:49 νόμος One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."
- Exodus 13:9 νόμος It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 13:10 νόμος You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
- Exodus 16:4 νόμος Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
- Exodus 16:28 νόμος Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
- Exodus 18:16 νόμος When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."
- Exodus 18:20 νόμος You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
- Exodus 24:12 νόμος 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."
- Leviticus 6:2 νόμος "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
- Leviticus 6:7 νόμος The priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he does to become guilty."
- Leviticus 6:15 νόμος He shall take from there his handful of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the meal offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet savor, as its memorial, to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 6:18 νόμος Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.'"
- Leviticus 7:1 νόμος "'This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy.
- Leviticus 7:7 νόμος "'As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with them shall have it.
- Leviticus 7:11 νόμος "'This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 7:37 νόμος This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings;
- Leviticus 11:46 νόμος "'This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
- Leviticus 12:7 νόμος and he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. "'This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
- Leviticus 13:59 νόμος This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
- Leviticus 14:2 νόμος "This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,
- Leviticus 14:32 νόμος This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.
- Leviticus 14:54 νόμος This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,
- Leviticus 14:57 νόμος to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.
- Leviticus 15:3 νόμος This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
- Leviticus 15:32 νόμος This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby;
- Leviticus 19:19 νόμος "'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.
- Leviticus 19:37 νόμος You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.'"
- Leviticus 26:46 νόμος These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.
- Numbers 5:29 νόμος "This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;
- Numbers 5:30 νόμος or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.
- Numbers 6:13 νόμος "This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,
- Numbers 6:21 νόμος "This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, besides that which he is able to get. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation."
- Numbers 9:3 νόμος On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season-- according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."
- Numbers 9:12 νόμος They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
- Numbers 9:14 νόμος If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"
- Numbers 15:15 νόμος For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner [with you], a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.
- Numbers 15:16 νόμος One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.
- Numbers 15:29 νόμος You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is home-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.
- Numbers 19:2 νόμος This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke.
- Numbers 19:14 νόμος This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
- Numbers 31:21 νόμος Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
- Deuteronomy 1:5 νόμος Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
- Deuteronomy 4:8 νόμος What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
- Deuteronomy 4:44 νόμος This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
- Deuteronomy 17:11 νόμος according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
- Deuteronomy 24:8 νόμος Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
- Deuteronomy 27:3 νόμος and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
- Deuteronomy 27:8 νόμος You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
- Deuteronomy 27:26 νόμος Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amen.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3551) 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.
