adjective
ennomos
Strong’sG1772
legal, obedient to the law
stem ennom-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ἔν-νομος, -ον
[in LXX: Si, prol. 12*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1772 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
ordained by law, lawful, legal, Refs 5th c.BC+; [χθονὸς αἶσα] Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔννομα πείσονται they will suffer lawful punishment, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. ὁμολογία, πολιτεία, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκκλησία NT; ἡλικία, χρόνοι, Refs 2nd c.BC+ adverb -μως, ζημιοῦσθαι, διοικεῖσθαι,Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -ώτερονRefs 3rd c.AD+
2 of persons, keeping within the law, upright, just, Refs 5th c.BC+; also, subject to the law, μὴ ὢν ἄνομος Θεοῦ, ἀλλ᾽ ἔ. Χριστοῦ NT
II (νέμομαι) feeding in, i.e. inhabiting, οἳ γᾶς τότ᾽ ἦσαν ἔννομοι Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ennomos1×ἔννομος | ennomas | ennomem | ennomois | ennomais | ennomeim |
| object accusative | ennomon | ennoman | ennomoin | ennomain | ||
| direct address vocative | ennomor | ennomar | ennomoir | ennomair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | ennomou | ennomau | ennomeu | ennomoiu | ennomaiu | ennomeiu |
| to, for dative | ennomo | ennoma1×ἐννόμῳ | ennome | ennomoi | ennomai | ennomei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
ennom is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ennomos“under the law”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Corinthians 9:21… anomos, mē arōntos anomos theou alla ennomos Christou, hina kerdainameia toin anomoin;… the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without …
ennoma“lawful”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 19:39“lawful”… de tinem peraiterō epizētavō, en ta ennoma ekklēsa epiluiti.But if you are seeking anything beyond this, it must be settled in a legal assembly.