Strong's G3551

νόμος(nómos)

Language:: Greek (New Testament)

Definition

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

Derivation

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

KJV Translation

In the King James Version, νόμος is translated as: law.

About Strong's Concordance

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Greek root word in the New Testament. The Greek dictionary covers all 5,624 root words. This entry is in the public domain.