νόμος, νόμου, ὁ (νέμω to divide, distribute, apportion), in secular authors from Hesiod down, anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, usage, law; in the Sept. very often for ϊΜεψΘδ, also for ηΛχΘΜδ, γΘΜϊ, etc. In the N. T. a command, law; and 1. of any law whatsoever: διά ποίου νόμου; Rom_3:27; νόμος δικαιοσύνης, a law or rule producing a state approved of God, i. e. by the observance of which we are approved of God, Rom_9:31, cf. Meyer (see Weiss edition), Fritzsche, Philippi at the passage; a precept or injunction: κατά νόμον ἐντολῆς σαρκίνης, Heb_7:16; plural of the things prescribed by the divine will, Heb_8:10; Heb_10:16; νόμος τοῦ νως, the rule of action prescribed by reason, Rom_7:23; the mention of the divine law causes those things even which in opposition to this law impel to action, and therefore seem to have the force of a law, to be designated by the term νόμος, as ἕτερος νόμος ἐν τοῖς μέλεσί μου, a different law from that which God has given, i. e. the impulse to sin inherent in human nature, or ὁ νόμος τῆς ἁμαρτίας (genitive of author), Rom_7:23; Rom_7:25; Rom_8:2, also ὁ νόμος τοῦ θανάτου, emanating from the power of death, Rom_8:2; with which is contrasted ὁ νόμος τοῦ πνεύματος, the impulse to (right) action emanating from the Spirit, ibid. 2. of the Mosaic law, and referring, according to the context, either to the volume of the law or to its contents: with the article, Mat_5:18; Mat_12:5; Mat_22:36; Luk_2:27; Luk_10:26; Luk_16:17; Joh_1:17; Joh_1:45 (); ; Act_6:13; Act_7:53; Act_18:13; Act_18:15; Act_21:20; Act_23:3; Rom_2:13 ((bis) here L T Tr WH omit the article (also G in Rom_2:13 b)), Rom_2:15; Rom_2:18; Rom_2:20; Rom_2:23 b, 26 ; Rom_4:15 a; Rom_7:1 b, 5 , 14 , 21 (on the right interpretation of this difficult passage cf. Knapp, Scripta varii Argumenti, ii., p. 385ff and Fritzsche, Commentary to Romans, ii., p. 57; (others take νόμος here generally, equivalent to controlling principle; see 1 above under the end and cf. Winers Grammar, 557 (578); Buttmann, § 151, 15)); Rom_8:3; 1Co_9:8; 1Co_15:56; Gal_3:13; Gal_3:24; Eph_2:15 (on which passage see δόγμα, 2); 1Ti_1:8; Heb_7:19; Heb_7:28; Heb_10:1, etc.; with the addition of Μωϋσέως, Luk_2:22; Joh_7:23; Joh_8:5; Act_13:38() (here L T Tr WH omit the article); Act_15:5; Act_28:23; 1Co_9:9; of κυρίου, Luk_2:39; of τοῦ Θεοῦ, (Mat_15:6 T WH marginal reading); Rom_7:22; Rom_8:7. κατά τόν νόμον, according to the (standard or requirement of the) law, Act_22:12; Heb_7:5; Heb_9:22. νόμος without the article (in the Epistles of Paul and James and the Epistle to the Hebrews; cf. Winers Grammar, p. 123 (117); Buttmann, 89 (78); (some interpreters contend that νόμος without the article denotes not the law of Moses but law viewed as 'a principle', 'abstract and universal'; cf. Lightfoot on Gal_2:19; also Fresh Revision, etc., p. 99; Vaughan on Rom_2:23; especially Van Hengel on Rom_2:12; Gifford in the Speaker's Commentary on Romans, pp. 41ff. (cf. Cremer, under the word). This distinction is contrary to usage (as exhibited e. g. in Wis_18:4; Sir_19:17 Sir_21:11 Sir_31:8 Sir_32:1 Sir. 35:15, 24 (32); ,(33); 1Ma_2:21; 4Ma_7:7, and many other examples in the Apocrypha; see Wahl, Clavis Apocrr. under the word, p. 343), and to the context in such Pauline passages as the following: Rom_2:17; Rom_2:25; Rom_2:27; Rom_7:1(); ; Gal_3:17-18; Gal_3:23-24 (cf. Rom_2:12 and Rom_3:19; Rom_5:13 and Rom_5:14); etc. It should be added, perhaps, that neither the list of passages with the article nor of those without it, as given by Prof. Grimm, claims to be complete)): Rom_2:23 a, 25 ; Rom_3:31; Rom_4:15 b; Rom_5:13; Rom_7:1 a, 2 a; Rom_10:4; Rom_13:10; Gal_3:1-29 : ; Gal_5:23; 1Ti_1:9; Heb_7:12, etc.; with the addition of κυρίου, Luk_2:23 (here L has the article), (L T Tr WH add the article); of Θεοῦ, Rom_7:25; of Μωϋσέως, Heb_10:28; especially after prepositions, as διά νόμου, Rom_2:12; Rom_3:20; Gal_2:21; χωρίς νόμου, without the cooperation of the law, Rom_3:21; destitute or ignorant of the law, Rom_7:9; where no law has been promulged, Rom_7:8; οἱ ἐκ νόμου, those who rule their life by the law, Jews, Rom_4:14; Rom_4:16 (here all editions have the article); οἱ ἐν νόμῳ, who are in the power of the law, i. e. bound to it, Rom_3:19 (but all texts here ἐν τῷ νόμῳ); ὑπό νόμον, under dominion of the law, Rom_6:14; Gal_3:23; Gal_4:4; Gal_4:21; Gal_5:18; οἱ ὑπό νόμον, 1Co_9:20; δικαιοῦσθαι ἐν νόμῳ, Gal_5:4; ἔργα νόμου (see ἔργον, under the end); ἐν νόμῳ ἁμαρτάνειν, under law, i. e. with knowledge of the law, Rom_2:12 (equivalent to ἔχοντες νόμον, cf. Rom_2:14); they to whom the Mosaic law has not been made known are said νόμον μή ἔχειν, ibid. 14; ἑαυτοῖς εἰσί νόμος, their natural knowledge of right takes the place of the Mosaic law, ibid.; νόμος ἔργων, the law demanding works, Rom_3:27; διά νόμου νόμῳ ἀπέθανον, by the law itself (when I became convinced that by keeping it I could not attain to salvation, cf. Rom_7:9-24) I became utterly estranged from the law, Gal_2:19 (cf. Winers Grammar, 210 (197); Buttmann, § 133,12). κατά νόμον, as respects the interpretation and observance of the law, Php_3:5. The observance of the law is designated by the following phrases: πληροῦν νόμον, Rom_13:8; τόν νόμον Gal_5:14; πληροῦν τό δικαίωμα τοῦ νόμου, Rom_8:4; φυλάσσειν (τόν) νόμον, Act_21:24; Gal_6:13; τά δικαιώματα τοῦ νόμου, Rom_2:26; πράσσειν νόμον, Rom_2:25; ποιεῖν τόν νόμον, Joh_7:19; Gal_5:3; τηρεῖν, Act_15:5; Act_15:24 (Rec.); Jas_2:10; τέλειν, Rom_2:27 (cf. Jas_2:8); (on the other hand, ἀκυρουν τόν νόμον Mat_15:6 T WH marginal reading). ὁ νόμος is used of some particular ordinance of the Mosaic law in Joh_19:7; Jas_2:8; with a genitive of the object added, τοῦ ἀνδρός, the law enacted respecting the husband, i. e. binding the wife to her husband, Rom_7:2 where Rec.elz omit τοῦ νόμου (so ὁ νόμος τοῦ πάσχα, Num_9:12; τοῦ λεπροῦ, Lev_14:2; other examples are given in Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans, ii., p. 9; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 β.). Although the Jews did not make a distinction as we do between the moral, the ceremonial; the civil, precepts of the law, but thought that all should be honored and kept with the same conscientious and pious regard, yet in the N. T. not infrequently the law is so referred to as to show that the speaker or writer has his eye on the ethical part of it alone, as of primary importance and among Christians also of perpetual validity, but does not care for the ceremonial and civil portions, as being written for Jews alone: thus in Gal_5:14; Rom_13:8; Rom_13:10; Rom_2:26; Rom_7:21; Rom_7:25; Mat_5:18, and often; τά τοῦ νόμου, the precepts, moral requirements, of the law, Rom_2:14. In the Epistle of James νόμος (without the article) designates only the ethical portion of the Mosaic law, confirmed by the authority of the Christian religion: Rom_2:9-11; Rom_4:11; in the Epistle to the Hebrew, on the other hand, the ceremonial part of the law is the prominent idea. 3. of the Christian religion: νόμος πίστεως, the law demanding faith, Rom_3:27; τοῦ Χριστοῦ, the moral instruction given by Christ, especially the precept concerning love, Gal_6:2; τῆς ἐλευθερίας (see ἐλευθερία, a.), Jas_1:25; Jas_2:12; cf. ὁ καινός νόμος τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἄνευ ζυγοῦ ἀνάγκης ὤν, the Epistle of Barnabas 2, 6 [ET] (see Harnack's note, in the place cited). 4. by metonymy ὁ νόμος, the name of the more important part (i. e. the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the O. T.: Joh_7:49; Joh_10:34 (Psa_81:6 ()); Joh_12:34 (Psa_109:4 (); (Theod.) Dan_2:44; Dan_7:14); Joh_15:25 (Psa_34:19 (); ()); Rom_3:19; 1Co_14:21 (Isa_28:11 f; so 2Ma_2:18, where cf. Grimm); ὁ νόμος καί οἱ προφῆται, Mat_11:13; Joh_1:46; Act_13:15; Act_24:14; Act_28:23; Rom_3:21 (2Ma_15:9); equivalent to the system of morals taught in the O. T., Mat_5:17; Mat_7:12; Mat_22:40; ὁ νόμος (οἱ) προφῆται καί ψαλμοί, the religious dispensation contained in the O. T., Luk_24:44 (ὁ νόμος, οἱ προφῆται καί τά ἀλλά πατριά βιβλία, proleg. to Sir.). Paul's doctrine concerning ὁ νόμος is exhibited by (besides others) Weiss, Biblical Theol. §§ 71, 72; Pfleiderer, Paulinismus, pp. 69f. (English translation, i., p. 68f; A. Zahn, Das Gesetz Gottes nach d. Lehre u. Erfahrung d. Apestel Paulus, Halle 1876; R. Tiling, Die Paulinische Lehre vom νόμος nach d. vier Hauptbriefen, as above with Dorpat, 1878). νόμος does not occur in the following N. T. books: 2 Corinthians, Colossians, Thessalonians, 2 Timothy, Peter, Jude, John, and Revelation.

νόμος nomos 19 4x a law, Rom_4:15 ; 1Ti_1:9 ; the Mosaic law, Mat_5:17 , et al. freq.; the Old Testament Scripture, Joh_10:34 ; a legal tie, Rom_7:2-3 ; a law, a rule, standard, Rom_3:27 ; a rule of life and conduct, Gal_6:2 , Jas_1:25 law.

νόμος , -ου , ὁ ( <νέμω , to deal out, distribute ), [in LXX chiefly for H8452 , also for H2706 , 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 ; Rom_5:13 b; pl ., of divine laws, Heb_8:10 ; Heb_10:16 : ὁ ν . τ . Χριστοῦ , Gal_6:2 ; (τ .) ἐλευθερίας , Jas_1:25 ; Jas_2:12 ; βασιλικός ( Hort ., in l ; Deiss., LAE , 3673), Jas_2:8 . 2. Of a force or influence impelling to action: Rom_7:21 ; Rom_7:23 a, Rom_7:25 ; Rom_8:2 . 3. Of the Mosaic law: Mat_5:18 , Luk_2:27 , Joh_1:17 , Act_6:13 , Rom_2:15 , 1Co_9:8 , 1Ti_1:8 , Heb_7:19 , al. ; τ . Μωυσέως , Luk_2:22 , Joh_7:23 , Act_15:5 , al. ; κυρίου , Luk_2:39 ; κατὰ τὸν ν ., Act_22:12 , Heb_7:5 ; Heb_9:22 . Anarthrous (Bl., § 46, 8; ICC on Rom_2:12-13 ) νόμος , (a) of law in general : Rom_2:12 ; Rom_2:14 b Rom_3:20-21 ; Rom_4:15 , al. ; (b) of the Mosaic law in its quality as law: Rom_2:14 a Rom_5:20 ; Rom_10:4 , Gal_2:19 , al. ; οἱ ἐκ ν ., Rom_4:14 ; ὑπὸ νόμον , 1Co_9:20 , Gal_4:5 ; ν . πράσσειν (πληροῦν ), Rev_2:25 ; Rev_13:8 . 4. Of Christian teaching: ν . πίστεως , Rom_3:27 ; τ . Χριστοῦ , Gal_6:2 . 5. By meton ., of the books which contain the law; (a) of the Pentateuch: Mat_12:5 , Joh_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 . H8452 ): Joh_10:34 ; Joh_12:34 ; Joh_15:25 , 1Co_14:21 , al .

νόμος [page 429] For the use of νόμος c. gen. obj. to denote a particular ordinance as in Rom_7:2 ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τοῦ ἀνδρός ( from that section of the statute-book which is headed The Husband, the section which lays down his rights and duties SH), cf. Syll 828 (= .8 1198) .14 (iii/A.D.) κα ]τὰ τὸν νόμον τῶν ἐ [ρανισ ]τῶν . See also P Rev L xxv. 15 (B.C. 259 8) al. where the various cross-references from one section to another are marked by the phrase κατὰ τὸν νόμον (cf. the editors note, p. 91). Thieme (p. 30) illustrates the quasi-personification of ὁ νόμος in Joh_7:51 , Rom_3:19 , by Magn 92 a. .11 (ii/B.C. ad init. ) πάντων συντελεσθέντων , ὧ [ν ὁ νόμος ] συντάσσει , cf. b. .16 πάντων συντελεσθέντων ὧν ὁ νόμος ἀγορεύει . The phrase ἐν νόμῳ γέγραπται is found in legal phraseology from iii/B.C. onwards, e.g. Magn 52 .35 ὅ ]σα καὶ τοῖς τὰ Πύθια ἐπαγγελλόν [τ ]ε̣σσι [ν ἐν ν ]όμῳ γέγραπται . For the expression νόμος βασιλικός in Jas_2:8 see s.v. βασιλικός ad fin. The inscr. is reproduced in OGIS 483. In a remarkable epitaph from Apameia, C. and B. ii. p. 538 No. 399 bis , provision is made that the grave shall not be disturbed in the following terms ἰς ὃ ἕτερος οὐ τεθῆ , εἰ δέ τις ἐπιτηδεύσι , τὸν νόμον οἶδεν [τ ]ῶν Εἰουδέων . According to Ramsay, the reference must be not to the law of Moses, but to some agreement made with the city by the resident Jews for the better protection of their graves. For a detailed study of νόμος used qualitatively in the Pauline Epistles we may refer to Slaten Qualitative Nouns , p. 35 ff. Norden ( Agnosias Theos , p. ii n. .2 ) points out how readily Paul s teaching in Rom_2:14 ff. ὅταν γὰρ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ νόμον ἔχοντα φύσει τὰ τοῦ νόμου ποιῶσιν , οὗτοι κτλ . would be understood in view of the ἄγραφος νόμος of the Greeks (cf. R, Hirzel Abh. d. Sδchs. Ges. d. Wiss., phil.-hist. Kl. xx. 1900). See also Ferguson Legal Terms , p. 64. (cf. νομός )

νόμος "anything assigned, a usage, custom, law, ordinance", Lat. institutum, Hes. ; νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς "custom" is lord of all, Pind. ap. Hdt. ; κατὰ νόμον according to "custom or law", Hes. , Hdt. , attic; poet. κὰν νόμον Pind. :— παρὰ νόμον contrary to "law", Aesch. :—dat. νόμῳ "by custom, conventionally", opp. to φύσει, Hdt. , Arist. :—at Athens νόμοι were Solon. 's laws, those of Draco being called θεσμοί. ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ "by the law of force, in the fight or scuffle", Hdt. ; ἐν χειρὸς νόμῳ "in actual warfare", Arist. ; also, ἐς χειρῶν νόμον ἀπικέσθαι to come "to blows", Hdt. "a musical mode or strain", Aesch. , Plat. , etc.; νόμοι κιθαρῳδικοί Ar. "a song" sung in honour of some god, Hdt. ; νόμοι πολεμικοί war- "tunes", Thuc.

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)