Strong's Greek · G3551
νόμος
nómos
law
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);
Appears 194 times in Scripture
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.”
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.”
“And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord”
“For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”
“For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.”
“Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?”
“In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.”
“(as it is written in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),”
“All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.””
““Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?””
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).