Lexicon Entries
3551 Nomos* (nom'-os) from nemo (to parcel out) (Greek);
- anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command
- of any law whatsoever
- a law or rule producing a state approved of God
- by the observance of which is approved of God
- a precept or injunction
- the rule of action prescribed by reason
- of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents
- the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, esp. the precept concerning love
- the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT