δόγμα
dógma · G1378 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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law, ordinance, rule
A formalized rule (or set of rules) prescribing what people must do
ExamplesActs 16:4 Now while they were passing through the cities, they were delivering the ordinances for them to follow which had been determined by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.
Colossians 2:14 having canceled the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
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order, decree
An official order or decree
ExamplesLuke 2:1 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.
Acts 17:7 and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”
Ephesians 2:15 by abolishing in His flesh the hostility, which is the Law composed of commandments expressed in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two one new person, in this way establishing peace;
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ΚαῖσαρCaesar, the Emperor 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κρίνωto judge 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐξέρχομαιto go out, to depart 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φυλάσσωto keep, to guard 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀπέναντιopposite 2
- ἐνin 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Order, decree33.332
- Used of an authoritative civil directive, as of the decree issued by Caesar Augustus that a census be taken of the whole inhabited earth in Luke 2:1, and the decrees of Caesar allegedly being violated by proclaiming another king, Jesus, in Acts 17:7.
- Law, ordinance, rule33.333
- Used of a body of authoritative regulations, as of the apostolic ordinances the churches were delivered to observe in Acts 16:4, the Law composed of commandments in ordinances being abolished in Christ in Ephesians 2:15, and the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against believers being canceled and nailed to the cross in Colossians 2:14.
Word family 19 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon δογματος, τό (from δοκέω, and equivalent to τό δεδογμενον), an opinion, a judgment…
1. of public decrees (as τῆς πόλεως, Plato, legg. 1, p. 644 d.; of the Roman Senate (Polybius 6, 13, 2); Herodian, 7, 10, 8 (5, Bekker edition)): of rulers, Lk 2:1; Acts 17:7; Heb 11:23 Lachmann (Theod. in Dan 2:13; Dan 3:10; Dan 4:3; Dan 6:13, etc. — where the Sept. uses other words).
2. of the rules and requirements of the law of Moses, 3Macc. 1:3; διατήρησις τῶν ἁγίων δογμάτων, Philo, alleg. legg. i., § 16; carrying a suggestion of severity, and of threatened punishment, τόν νόμον τῶν ἐντολῶν ἐν δογμασι, the law containing precepts in the form of decrees (A. V. the law of commandments contained in ordinances), Eph 2:15; τό καθ' ἡμῶν χειρόγραφον τοῖς δογμασι equivalent to τό τοῖς δογμασι (dative of instrument) by ὄν καθ' ἡμῶν, the bond against us by its decrees, Col 2:14; cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 10 Note 1 (Buttmann, 92 (80); on both passages see Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited).
3. of certain decrees of the apostles relative to right living: Acts 16:4. (Of all the precepts of the Christian religion: βεβαιωθῆναι ἐν τοῖς δόγμασιν τοῦ κυρίου καί τῶν ἀποστόλων, Ignatius ad Magnes. 13, 1 [ET]; of the precepts (`sentences' or tenets) of philosophers, in the later secular writings: Cicero, acad. 2, 9, 27de suis decretis, quae philosophi vocant dogmata.) (On the use of the word in general, see Lightfoot as above; (cf. 'Teaching' etc. 11, 3 [ET]).)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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