Strong's G3551 · Greek
νόμος
nomos · /nom'-os/
Definition
from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals); law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle):--law.
KJV: law
Root / derivation: from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals)
KJV usage breakdown
How the Authorized (KJV) translators rendered νόμος across 106 verses.
Every occurrence (KJV)
106 verses use this word, grouped by book — the translated form is highlighted.
Matthew8 verses
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Matthew 5:18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Matthew 7:12Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 11:13For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Matthew 12:5Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Matthew 22:36Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Matthew 22:40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 23:23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. anise: Gr. dill
Luke9 verses
And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
Luke 2:23(As it is written in the law of the Lord Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
Luke 2:24And 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 2:27And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
Luke 2:39And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
Luke 10:26He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Luke 16:16The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Luke 16:17And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke 24:44And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
John12 verses
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
John 1:45Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
John 7:23If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? that: or, without breaking the law of Moses
John 7:49But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
John 7:51Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
John 8:5Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
John 8:17It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
John 10:34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
John 12:34The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
John 18:31Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:
John 19:7The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Acts19 verses
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Acts 7:53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Acts 13:15And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Acts 13:39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Acts 15:5But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. rose: or, rose up, said they, certain
Acts 15:24Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
Acts 18:13Saying This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
Acts 18:15But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
Acts 21:20And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
Acts 21:24Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
Acts 21:28Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
Acts 22:3I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Acts 22:12And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
Acts 23:3Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Acts 23:29Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
Acts 24:6Who also hath gone about to profane the temple whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
Acts 24:14But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
Acts 25:8While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
Acts 28:23And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
Romans51 verses
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Romans 2:13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Romans 2:14For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Romans 2:15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) their conscience: or, the conscience witnessing with them the mean: or, between themselves
Romans 2:17Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
Romans 2:18And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; approvest: or, triest the things that differ
Romans 2:20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Romans 2:23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Romans 2:25For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Romans 2:26Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
Romans 2:27And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
Romans 3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. guilty: or, subject to the judgment of God
Romans 3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Romans 3:27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Romans 3:28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Romans 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 4:13For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 4:14For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
Romans 4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans 4:16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might 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(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Romans 5:20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Romans 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 6:15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Romans 7:1Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Romans 7:2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Romans 7:3So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Romans 7:4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. motions: Gr. passions
Romans 7:6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. that being: or, being dead to that
Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. lust: or, concupiscence
Romans 7:8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Romans 7:9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans 7:12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Romans 7:21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Romans 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Romans 7:23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: for sin: or, by a sacrifice for sin
Romans 8:4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. the carnal: Gr. the minding of the flesh
Romans 9:31But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Romans 9:32Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
Romans 10:4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Romans 10:5For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
Romans 13:8Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:10Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 Corinthians7 verses
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:8Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
1 Corinthians 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.3361 Doth God take care for oxen?
1 Corinthians 9:20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
1 Corinthians 14:21In the law it is written With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
1 Corinthians 14:34Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1 Corinthians 15:56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Strong's G3551 (nomos) mean?
from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals); law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle):--law.
How many times does G3551 appear in the Bible?
Strong's G3551 (νόμος) appears in 106 verses of the King James Version, most often translated “law.”
How is nomos translated in the KJV?
In the KJV, Strong's G3551 is rendered as “law” (134×).
Where does the Greek word νόμος come from?
from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals)