novmo" novmo", novmou, oJ (nevmw to divide, distribute, apportion), in secular authors from Hesiod down, anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, usage, law; in the Septuagint very often for hr;/T, also for hQ;ju, tD;, etc. In the N. T. a command, law; and1. of any law whatsoever: diav poivou novmou; ; novmo" dikaiosuvnh", a law or rule producing a state approved of God, i. e. by the observance of which we are approved of God, , cf. Meyer (see Weiss edition), Fritzsche, Philippi at the passage; a precept or injunction: katav novmon ejntolh'" sarkivnh", ; plural of the things prescribed by the divine will, ; ; novmo" tou' nw", the rule of action prescribed by reason, ; the mention of the divine law causes those things even which in opposition to this law impel to action, and therefore seem to have the force of a law, to be designated by the term novmo", as e{tero" novmo" ejn toi'" mevlesiv mou, a different law from that which God has given, i. e. the impulse to sin inherent in human nature, or oJ novmo" th'" aJmartiva" (genitive of author), ,; , also oJ novmo" tou' qanavtou, emanating from the power of death, ; with which is contrasted oJ novmo" tou' pneuvmato", the impulse to (right) action emanating from the Spirit, ibid.2. of the Mosaic law, and referring, according to the context, either to the volume of the law or to its contents: with the article, ; ; ; ; ; ; , (46); ; ; ; ; ; ; ,; ; ; ((bis) here L T Tr WH omit the article (also G in b)), ,,,b,26; a; b,5,14,21 (on the right interpretation of this difficult passage cf. Knapp, Scripta varii Argumenti, ii., p. 385ff and Fritzsche, Commentary to Romans, ii., p. 57; (others take novmo" here generally, equivalent to controlling principle; see 1 above under the end and cf. Winer's Grammar, 557 (578); Buttmann, sec. 151, 15)); f; ; ; ,; (on which passage see dovgma, 2); ; ,; , etc.; with the addition of Mwu>sevw", ; ; ; (39) (here L T Tr WH omit the article); ; ; ; of kurivou, ; of tou' Qeou', ( T WH marginal reading); ; <<ref:BHS/GNT_Rom 8:7