Strong's #3551: nomos (pronounced nom'-os)
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.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
nomos
1) anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command
1a) of any law whatsoever
1a1) a law or rule producing a state approved of God
1a1a) by the observance of which is approved of God
1a2) a precept or injunction
1a3) the rule of action prescribed by reason
1b) of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents
1c) the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, especially the precept concerning love
1d) the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals)
Citing in TDNT: 4:1022, 646
Usage:
This word is used 197 times:
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Matthew 5:17: "I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not"
Matthew 5:18: "pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."
Matthew 7:12: "for this is the law and the prophets."
Matthew 11:13: "prophets and the law prophesied until John."
Matthew 12:5: "read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the"
Matthew 22:36: "commandment in the law?"
Matthew 22:40: "hang all the law and the prophets."
Matthew 23:23: "the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and"
Luke 2:22: "purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him"
Luke 2:23: "(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth"
Luke 2:24: "according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or"
Luke 2:27: "the custom of the law,"
Luke 2:39: "all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee,"
Luke 10:26: "is written in the law? how readest"
Luke 16:16: "The law and the prophets were until John: since"
Luke 16:17: "one tittle of the law to fail."
Luke 24:44: "which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and"
John 1:17: "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and"
John 1:45: "Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write,"
John 7:19: "give you the law, and yet none of you"
John 7:19: "you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?"
John 7:23: "circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry"
John 7:49: "who knoweth not the law are cursed."
John 7:51: "Doth our law judge any man, before it hear"
John 8:5: "Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned:"
John 8:17: "written in your law, that the testimony of two"
John 10:34: "written in your law, I said, Ye are gods"
John 12:34: "have heard out of the law that Christ abideth forever:"
John 15:25: "that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause."
John 18:31: "him according to your law. The Jews therefore said"
John 19:7: "him, We have a law, and by our law"
John 19:7: "and by our law he ought to die, because he made"
Acts 6:13: "place, and the law:"
Acts 7:53: "Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and"
Acts 13:15: "the reading of the law and the prophets the"
Acts 13:39: "be justified by the law of Moses."
Acts 15:5: "to command them to keep the law of Moses."
Acts 15:24: "and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:"
Acts 18:13: "God contrary to the law."
Acts 18:15: "and of your law, look ye to it; for I"
Acts 21:20: "all zealous of the law:"
Acts 21:24: "walkest orderly, and keepest the law."
Acts 21:28: "people, and the law, and this place: and"
Acts 22:3: "and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous"
Acts 22:12: "man according to the law, having a good report of all the"
Acts 23:3: "me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten"
Acts 23:29: "of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge"
Acts 24:6: "have judged according to our law."
Acts 24:14: "which are written in the law and in the prophets:"
Acts 25:8: "Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against"