Words the Bible translates as law
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- nomosνόμοςthe Law: God's revealed will given to Israel through Moses, the whole body of commands at the heart of the covenant.
+2 more meanings
- Scripture: the written holy books, whether the five books of Moses or the Hebrew Bible as a whole.
- a principle or governing force: a steady rule that operates in a person or situation, not the law of Moses.
- torahתּוֹרָהauthoritative instruction: binding teaching given by a recognized authority, and in time the whole body of God's teaching gathered into a written book
- datדָּתan authoritative rule handed down by a ruler: a royal decree, or the settled law of a kingdom
- datדָּתa binding law or royal decree: an authoritative rule issued and enforced by a king, or ascribed to God.
- nomothesiaνομοθεσίαlawnot studied yet
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