nomimōs

Strong’sG3545

lawfully

stem nomimō-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 booksnever changes form

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.

** νομίμως,

adv.

(< νόμιμος, conformable to law), [in LXX: IV Mac 6:18*;]

rightly, lawfully: I Ti 1:8, II Ti 2:5.†

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

Strong’s G3545 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidnom-im'-oce

legitimately (specially, agreeably to the rules of the lists)

Fromadverb from a derivative of G3551;

King Jameslawfully.

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

Included with: νόμ-ιμος, η, ον,
also ος, ον Refs 5th c.BC+:— conformable to custom, usage, or law, ν. ὅρκος Legal cited in Refs 5th c.BC+; legitimate, ν. παῖδες Refs 5th c.BC+: hence, customary, prescriptive, φῶς Refs, etc.; οἱ ν. θεοί Refs 5th c.BC+
2 observant of law, Refs 5th c.BC+; ν. πόλις Isoc. [prev. cited]
II νόμιμα, τά, usages, customs, ἄλλα ἄλλοισιν νόμιμα, σφετέραν δ᾽ αἰνεῖ δίκαν ἕκαστος Refs 5th c.BC+; ν. Δωρικά, Χαλκιδικά, Refs 5th c.BC+; almost, ={νόμοι}, ἄγραπτα ν. Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς ν., τὸ πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους ν., Refs 5th c.BC+; ν. βαρβαρικά, title of treatise by Aristotle: rare in singular, τὸ πάντων ν. Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 legal rights, ν. καὶ φιλάνθρωπα Refs 1st c.AD+; process of law, τοῖς ν. χρῆσθαι Mitteis Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἄνευ νομίμων ἀπωθεῖσθαι to be illegally ejected, Refs 2nd c.AD+; εἴργεσθαι τῶν ν., i.e. ἱερῶν καὶ ἀγορᾶς, of persons accused of murder, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 funeral rites Refs 5th c.BC+
III adverb -μωςRefs 5th c.BC+in a natural way, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ ν. ἀθλοῦντες, πεπαιδευμένοι, professional athletes, physicians, Refs 2nd c.AD+, compare 8.171: comparative -ώτερονRefs 5th c.BC+: superlative -ώταταRefs 2nd c.AD+

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.

according to the rules1×lawfully1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

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

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

nomimōs2×

1 Timothy 1:8“lawfully”… kalos tos nomos ean tinos auto nomimōs chroteiō,… know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.

2 Timothy 2:5… athlateiō tinos, ouk stefanotō ean mē nomimōs athlateia;… receive the crown unless he competes according to the rules.