νόμος

nómos · Greek · Strong's G3551 · 196 occurrences

The KJV renders 4 different Hebrew and Greek words as “law”

What it means

law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle)

from a primary (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals);

How the KJV renders it

law

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“law”

also renders dâth (H1882), mitsvâh (H4687), mishpâṭ (H4941)

Answers that weigh this word

Where it appears

196 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.

1 Corinthians 9:8 · N-NSM

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 · N-DSM

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 · N-ASM

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 · N-DSM

In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even listen to me that way, says the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 14:34 · N-NSM

Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

1 Corinthians 15:56 · N-NSM

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

1 Timothy 1:8 N-NSM1 Timothy 1:9 N-NSMActs 6:13 N-GSMActs 7:53 N-ASMActs 13:15 N-GSMActs 13:39 N-DSMActs 15:5 N-ASMActs 18:13 N-ASMActs 18:15 N-GSMActs 21:20 N-GSMActs 21:24 N-ASMActs 21:28 N-GSMActs 22:3 N-GSMActs 22:12 N-ASMActs 23:3 N-ASMActs 23:29 N-GSMActs 24:14 N-ASMActs 25:8 N-ASMActs 28:23 N-GSMEphesians 2:15 N-ASMGalatians 2:16 N-GSMGalatians 2:19 N-DSMGalatians 2:21 N-GSMGalatians 3:2 N-GSMGalatians 3:5 N-GSMGalatians 3:10 N-GSMGalatians 3:11 N-DSMGalatians 3:12 N-NSMGalatians 3:13 N-GSMGalatians 3:17 N-NSMGalatians 3:18 N-GSMGalatians 3:19 N-NSMGalatians 3:21 N-GSMGalatians 3:23 N-ASMGalatians 3:24 N-NSMGalatians 4:4 N-ASMGalatians 4:5 N-ASMGalatians 4:21 N-ASMGalatians 5:3 N-ASMGalatians 5:4 N-DSMGalatians 5:14 N-NSMGalatians 5:18 N-ASMGalatians 5:23 N-NSMGalatians 6:2 N-ASMGalatians 6:13 N-ASMHebrews 7:5 N-ASMHebrews 7:12 N-GSMHebrews 7:16 N-ASMHebrews 7:19 N-NSMHebrews 7:28 N-ASMHebrews 8:4 N-ASMHebrews 8:10 N-APMHebrews 9:19 N-ASMHebrews 9:22 N-ASM

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