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νομοθέτης

nomothétēs · G3550 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. lawgiver

    (Derivative of νομοθετέω ‘to give a law,’) One who gives or enacts laws

    Examples

    James 4:12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, judging your neighbor?

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 1 entry
Lawgiver33.340
Warning against judging others, James 4:12 states “There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, judging your neighbor?” where “Lawgiver” renders this term for one who establishes law.
Word family 22 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

νόμος nómos · G3551 · law, ordinance, rule · 194×ἀνομία anomía · G458 · to live lawlessly, lawlessness, lawless living · 15×νομίζω nomízō · G3543 · to suppose, to presume, to assume · 15×ἄνομος ánomos · G459 · lawless, without the Law · 9×νομικός nomikós · G3544 · about the law, about laws, interpreter of the Law · 9×ἔνι éni · G1762 · to be, to exist · 6×νομοδιδάσκαλος nomodidáskalos · G3547 · teacher of the Law, expert in the Law · 3×ἀνόμως anómōs · G460 · without the Law · 2×ἔννομος énnomos · G1772 · legal, in accordance with law, subject to law · 2×νομή nomḗ · G3542 · pasture, extension, extend · 2×νομίμως nomímōs · G3545 · correctly, according to the rules · 2×νομοθετέω nomothetéō · G3549 · to enact a law, to give a law · 2×ἀπονέμω aponémō · G632 · to cause, to show, to assign to · 1×διανέμω dianémō · G1268 · to spread (a report), to become known, to spread · 1×ἐνδύνω endýnō · G1744 · to enter in secretly, to slip into · 1×ἐνειλέω eneiléō · G1750 · to wrap, to bandage · 1×ἔνειμι éneimi · G1751 · to be within · 1×νόμισμα nómisma · G3546 · coin · 1×νομοθεσία nomothesía · G3548 · to enact a law, to give a law · 1×νομοθέτηςnomothétēs · G3550παρανομέω paranoméō · G3891 · to disobey, to break the law, to transgress · 1×παρανομία paranomía · G3892 · lawless act, evil doing · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon νομοθετου, ὁ (νόμος and τίθημι, a lawgiver: Jas 4:12. ((Antiphon, Thucydides), Xenophon,…
νομοθετου, ὁ (νόμος and τίθημι, a lawgiver: Jas 4:12. ((Antiphon, Thucydides), Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Josephus, others; the Sept. Psalm 9:21.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Law, Regulation, Ordinance1 occurrence

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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