nomas

Strong’sG3542

pasturage, growth

stem nom-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.

νομή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< νέμω, to pasture), [in LXX chiefly for מִרְעֶה, also for נָוֶה, etc.;]

1. a pasture, pasturage: fig., Jo 10:9.

2. a grazing, feeding; metaph., of a spreading sore, II Ti 2:17 (Polyb.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3542 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidnom-ay'

pasture, i.e. (the act) feeding (figuratively, spreading of a gangrene), or (the food) pasturage

Fromfeminine from the same as G3551;

King JamesX eat, pasture.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

νομ-ή, ἡ,
(νέμω) pasturage, ἀμφίβιον.. ἔδωκε ν. βατράχοισι Κρονίων Refs 5th c.BC+; νομὰς νέμεσθαιRefs 5th c.BC+: in concrete sense, νομαὶ βοσκημάτων herds, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 food from pasturing, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 feeding, grazing, of herds, νομὴν ποιεῖσθαι, ={νέμεσθαι}, Refs 4th c.BC+
3.b metaphorically, spreading, ν. πυρός Refs 2nd c.BC+; frequently of sores, etc., ν. ποιεῖσθαι spread, NT+3rd c.BC+spreading ulcers, Refs 5th c.BC+
II division, distribution, Refs 5th c.BC+; of an inheritance, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ πατρῴα (variant{πατρῴων}) ν. Refs 4th c.BC+; διεφθαρκὼς νομῇ χρημάτων τὸν δῆμον by largess of money, Refs 4th c.BC+: in plural, = Latin donativa, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 paying out or distribution in bandaging, Refs 1st c.AD+
III in Law, = Latin possessio, Wilcken Refs 3rd c.AD+; μακρᾶς ν. παραγραφή, = longae posses- sionis praescriptio, Mitteis Refs 3rd c.AD+; ν. ἄδικος, = injusta possessio, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἐπὶ νομῆς πέμπειν, = in possessionem mittere, Refs 6th c.AD+
IV ἐν χειρῶν νομαῖς, ={ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ} Refs 2nd 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.

a spreading (effect)1×pasture1×

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	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	nomas	nomais
object accusative	noman2×νομὴν	nomain
direct address vocative	nomar	nomair
of, belonging to genitive	nomau	nomaiu
to, for dative	noma	nomai

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

nomstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

noma 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

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

nomos — νόμος, a law, the Mosaic Law

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

noman“pasture”objectaccusative singular2×

John 10:9… sōziti kai eisercheti kai exercheti kai noman heuriskati.… in and go out and find pasture.

2 Timothy 2:17“a spreading (effect)”kai tos logos autoiu hōs gangrainas noman echati; hoiu atō Humenaios kai Filētos,and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,