2001 Translation

NOMOUS, nomous

Sounds Like: noh-MOOS

Translations: laws, a law

From the root: ΝΟΜΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a law, custom, or principle. It is often used in the plural to refer to a body of laws, such as the Mosaic Law. In this form, it is used as the direct object of a verb or preposition.

Inflection: Plural, Masculine, Accusative

Strong’s number: G3551 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:111

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 6:12, 11:17, 11:18

Codex Sinaiticus

• 2 Esdras — 19:13
• Esther — 1:15, 1:19
• 1 Maccabees — 10:38, 11:34
• Proverbs — 1:8, 6:20
• Hebrews — 8:10, 10:16

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 4:21, 8:39, 8:43, 12:60, 22:190, 26:250, 28:265, 29:269, 31:286, 35:316, 2:25, 4:45, 4:47, 11:123, 14:143, 15:145, 15:147, 15:150, 17:162, 17:163, 19:176, 19:178, 24:194, 26:204, 29:210, 31:218, 32:222, 32:227, 32:228, 33:233, 37:257, 37:260, 38:263, 38:272, 38:273, 38:275, 39:277, 39:278
• Book Two — 2:25, 4:45, 4:47, 11:123, 14:143, 15:145, 15:147, 15:150, 17:162, 17:163, 19:176, 19:178, 24:194, 26:204, 29:210, 31:218, 32:222, 32:227, 32:228, 33:233, 37:257, 37:260, 38:263, 38:272, 38:273, 38:275, 39:277, 39:278

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 0:16
• Book 3 — 5:93, 8:213, 11:273
• Book 4 — 2:15, 4:71, 6:130, 6:138, 6:143, 6:147, 7:159, 7:165, 8:193, 8:194, 8:209, 8:211, 8:223, 8:225, 8:243, 8:264, 8:302, 8:312, 8:318
• Book 5 — 2:144, 2:166, 9:334
• Book 7 — 7:130, 7:131, 8:168, 14:338, 15:384
• Book 8 — 7:191, 8:229, 13:349, 13:361, 15:395
• Book 9 — 7:153, 12:243, 14:281
• Book 10 — 4:59, 4:60, 4:63, 4:72, 10:214, 11:275
• Book 11 — 1:17, 4:76, 4:108, 4:110, 5:140, 5:154, 6:231
• Book 12 — 2:20, 2:21, 2:89, 2:90, 3:142, 5:240, 7:303, 9:385
• Book 13 — 3:74, 3:79, 7:127, 11:318
• Book 14 — 10:195, 10:235, 10:242, 10:245, 10:258, 10:261, 10:264
• Book 15 — 7:259
• Book 16 — 2:28
• Book 17 — 6:159, 11:316
• Book 18 — 8:271, 8:300, 9:348
• Book 19 — 5:290
• Book 20 — 2:35, 2:44, 5:115, 9:201

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 6:2, 34:3
• Book Two — 14:22
• Book Four — 2:19
• Book Five — 3:26, 9:50, 9:59
• Book Six — 6:19
• Book Seven — 8:106

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 12:1
• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:9

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 27:134, 27:135

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 5:10

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Nehemiah — 9:13
• Esther — 1:15, 1:19
• 1 Maccabees — 10:38, 11:34
• 2 Maccabees — 2:22, 4:17, 7:2, 7:11, 7:23
• 3 Maccabees — 5:36
• Proverbs — 6:20
• Jeremiah — 38:33

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Hebrews — 8:10, 10:16

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΟΜΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἘΝΝΟΜΩΣ — lawfully, legally, in a lawful manner, according to law
• ΕΝΝΟΜ? — lawful, legal, legitimate, in accordance with law, subject to law
• ΕΝΟΜ — law, a law, custom, a custom, principle, a principle
• ΝΟΜ — law, a law, custom, a custom, principle, a principle
• ΝΟΜΕ — law, custom, principle, rule
• ΝΟΜΙΑΝ — law, a law, custom, a custom, principle, a principle
• ΝΟΜΙΚΟΙ — lawyers, experts in the law, teachers of the law
• ΝΟΜΙΚΩΣ — lawfully, legally, according to law
• ΝΟΜΙΜΑ — lawful, legal, customary, ordinances, statutes, laws, a lawful thing, lawful things
• ΝΟΜΟ — law, a law, custom, principle, rule, (of) law, (to) law
• ΝΟΜΟΙ — laws, rules, customs, principles
• ΝΟΜΟΙΣ — to laws, to a law, by laws, by a law, with laws, with a law
• ΝΟΜΟΝ — law, a law, rule, principle
• ΝΟΜΟΝʼ — law, a law, custom, principle, rule, regulation
• ΝΟΜΟΣ — law, a law, principle, custom
• ΝΟΜΟΣΔ' — law, a law, custom, a custom, rule, a rule, regulation, a regulation, the fourth law, the fourth custom, the fourth rule, the fourth regulation
• ΝΟΜΟΣΟ — law, a law, custom, a custom, principle, a principle
• ΝΟΜΟΥ — of law, of a law, law
• ΝΟΜΩ — (to) law, (to) a law, (to) custom, (to) a custom, (to) principle, (to) a principle
• ΝΟΜΩΝ — of laws, of customs, of principles
• ΠΑΡΑΝΟΜΩΣ — unlawfully, illegally, contrary to law
• ΤΟΥΣΝΟΜΟΥΣ — the laws
• ΤΩΝΝΟΜΩΝ — of the laws, of laws
• ΤΩΝΟΜΩ — to the law, of the law

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