ἔργων; (ergon) in Romans 3:27: Noun Genitive Plural Neuter

Noun: the word names an act, deed, or work, and here it refers to actions in a grouped sense.

Genitive: the form usually shows relationship, source, description, or content, and here it modifies the nearby law phrase.

Plural: the form speaks collectively about more than one work, not a single deed in isolation.

Neuter: the noun belongs to the neuter grammatical class, which does not by itself create any gendered theological claim.

τῶν before ἔργων within the question διὰ ποίου νόμου; τῶν ἔργων;

The genitive is governed by the prepositional question and most naturally marks the kind of law being discussed, namely a law identified by works.

It helps specify the contested category in the question and points to the works principle as the proposed basis under discussion.

It does not by itself state that the works are the means of salvation or that the noun becomes another lexical idea.

High: The genitive plural shapes the contrast between a law of works and a law of faith in Paul's argument against boasting.

Genitive plural noun qualifying the law phrase. identifies works as the category connected with the law under discussion. Attached to the question about what kind of law excludes boasting. Governed by the rhetorical contrast between works and faith. The form supports the rhetorical contrast; the argument decides why boasting is excluded.

What kind of law is being contrasted with faith? The genitive phrase identifies a works category that is contrasted with the law or principle of faith.

Direct: The genitive directly supports wording such as "of works" in the rhetorical question.

The genitive relation should be read in the rhetorical contrast, not as a free-standing doctrine. The noun works is plural and categorical here, but the verse's faith contrast supplies the decisive meaning.

Genitive automatically means possession: The genitive marks a qualifying relation in the phrase; possession is not the controlling sense here. the grammar alone defines law as Torah or principle in every use: The form qualifies the works category in the rhetorical contrast, but the context must decide how law is being used.

The witnessed form is ἔργων in Romans 3:27, appearing in the question τῶν ἔργων within the verse's contrast between boasting and faith.

The lemma ἔργον means work, deed, action, or labor, and the plural form here gathers such actions into a general category.

The genitive plural works with the article to name a class of actions associated with the law question, so the focus stays on the basis being rejected, not on a single isolated act.

In context, Paul excludes boasting by denying that it comes through a works-defined law and then contrasts that with a law of faith.

The verse fits Paul's larger argument that justification leaves no room for boasting and directs attention away from human achievement toward faith.

For readers and teachers, the form supports a clear contrast: not works as the ground of boasting, but faith as the operative principle in view.

Do not derive from the plural form alone that Paul is naming every possible kind of deed equally, or that grammatical number settles the theology by itself.