noun · feminine
nomothesias
Strong’sG3548
lawgiving, legislation
stem nomothesi-once in the New Testament1 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.
** νομοθεσία, -ας, ἡ
(< νόμος, τίθημι), [in LXX: II Mac 6:23, IV Mac 5:35 17:16*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3548 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidnom-oth-es-ee'-ah
legislation (specially, the institution of the Mosaic code)
Fromfrom G3550;
King Jamesgiving of the law.
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
legislation, Refs 5th c.BC+
II code of laws, LXX+5th c.BC+
II.2 metaphorically, of the order of nature, Vett. Val.344.1, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 plural, arbitrary principles, 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | nomothesias1×νομοθεσία | nomothesiais |
| object accusative | nomothesian | nomothesiain |
| direct address vocative | nomothesiar | nomothesiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | nomothesiau | nomothesiaiu |
| to, for dative | nomothesia | nomothesiai |
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
nomothesia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
nomothesias“giving of the law”subjectnominative singular1×
Romans 9:4… doxas kai tais diathēkais kai tas nomothesias kai tas latreias kai tais epangeliais,… glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.