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νόμος (nomos) means “law” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

νόμος Greek · G3551 193 tagged occurrences in 153 verses

Pronunciation guide: nom'-os Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G3551

νόμος · nomos · law

νόμος, -ου, ὁ (νέμω, to deal out, distribute), [in LXX chiefly for תּוֹרָה, also for חֻקָּה, etc. ;] that which is assigned, hence, usage, custom, then law; in NT (only in Mt, Jo, Ja, and the Lucan and Pauline bks.); 1. of law in general: Rom.3:27 5:13b; pl., of divine laws, Heb.8:10 10:16; ὁ ν. τ. Χριστοῦ, Gal.6:2; (τ.) ἐλευθερίας, Jas.1:25 2:12; βασιλικιός (Hort., in l.; Deiss., LAE, 267:3), Jas.2:8. 2. Of a force or influence impelling to action: Rom.7:21, 23a, 25 8:2. 3. Of the Mosaic law: Mat.5:18, Luk.2:27, Jhn.1:17, Act.6:13, Rom.2:15, 1Co.9:8, 1Ti.1:8, Heb.7:19; al.; Μωυσέως, Luk.2:22, Jhn.7:23, Act.15:5, al.; κυρίου, Luk.2:39; κατὰ τὸν ν., Act.22:12, Heb.7:5 9:22. 4. As printed, Abbott-Smith mistakenly numbers this as 3.Anarthrous (Bl, §46, 8; ICC on Rom.2:12, 13), νόμος, (a) of law in general: Rom.2:12, 14b 3:20, 21 4:15, al.; (b) of the Mosaic law in its quality as law: Rom.2:14a 5:20 10:4, Gal.2:19, al.; οἱ ἐκ ν., Rom.4:14; ὑπὸ νόμον, 1Co.9:20, Gal.4:5; ν. πράσσειν (πληροῦν), Rom.2:25 13:8. 5. Of Christian teaching: ν. πίστεως, Rom.3:27; τ. Χριστοῦ, Gal.6:2. 6. By meton., of the books which contain the law; (a) of the Pentateuch: Mat.12:5, Jhn.1:45, al.; ὁ ν. καὶ οἱ προφῆται, Mat.5:17, Luk.16:16, al.; ὁ ν. καὶ προφῆται κ. ψαλμοί, Luk.24:44. (b) of the OT Scriptures in general (as Heb. תּוֹרָה): Jhn.10:34 12:34 15:25, 1Co.14:21, al. (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

usage, custom, law; in NT: of law in general, plur: of divine laws; of a force or influence impelling to action; of the Mosaic law; meton: of the books which contain the law, the Pentateuch, the Old Testament scriptures in general.

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How translators render G3551

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
law 105
the law 53
of the law 12
a law 5
it 3
laws 2
principle 2
a lawbreaker 1
by law 1
i serve the law 1
law at work 1
law given 1
law is 1
law requires 1
law says 1
that 1
the law was given 1
to the law 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
the law 130
of the law 30
law 19
to the law 5
a law 4
by the law 2
in the law 2
laws 2
contained in the law 1
that law 1
the 1

Verses containing G3551

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  1. Romans 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

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  2. Romans 2:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

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  3. Romans 2:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

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  4. Romans 2:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

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  5. Romans 2:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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  6. Romans 2:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

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  7. Romans 2:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

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  8. Romans 3:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

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  9. Romans 3:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

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  10. Romans 3:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.

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  11. Romans 3:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

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  12. Romans 3:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

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  13. Romans 3:31 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

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  14. Romans 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

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  15. Romans 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

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  16. Romans 4:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

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  17. Romans 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

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  18. Romans 5:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

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  19. Romans 5:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

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  20. Romans 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

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  21. Romans 6:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

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  22. Romans 7:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

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  23. Romans 7:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

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  24. Romans 7:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

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  25. Romans 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

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  26. Romans 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

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  27. Romans 7:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

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  28. Romans 7:7 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

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  29. Romans 7:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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  30. Romans 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

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  31. Romans 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

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  32. Romans 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

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  33. Romans 7:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

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  34. Romans 7:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

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  35. Romans 7:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

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  36. Romans 7:23 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

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  37. Romans 7:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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  38. Romans 8:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

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  39. Romans 8:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

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  40. Romans 8:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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  41. Romans 8:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

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  42. Romans 9:31 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

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  43. Romans 10:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

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  44. Romans 10:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

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  45. Romans 13:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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  46. Romans 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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  47. 1 Corinthians 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?

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  48. 1 Corinthians 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

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  49. 1 Corinthians 9:20 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.

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  50. 1 Corinthians 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”

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