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3551 ~νόμος~ nomos \@nom’-os\@ from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals); n m AV-law 197; 197

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 moralinstruction given by Christ, esp. 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