What does νομοθέτης (nomothétēs) mean in the Bible?
νομοθέτης (nomothétēs): One who establishes or institutes law as authoritative divine or human ordinance.
Greek · G3550
νομοθέτης
A legislator
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νομοθέτης G3550
Pronunciation nomothétēs
What does νομοθέτης (nomothétēs) mean in the Bible?
νομοθέτης (nomothétēs): One who establishes or institutes law as authoritative divine or human ordinance.
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How does the BSB render G3550?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include Lawgiver (1).
Where does νομοθέτης (nomothétēs) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at James 4:12. Its strongest book concentrations include James (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It Lawgiver 1× James 4:12
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row James 4:12
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
James 1
Source forms
νομοθέτης 1x nomothetēs James 4:12
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular 1x James 4:12
Evidence Summary
Justice
Greek word. One who establishes or institutes law as authoritative divine or human ordinance.
Strong's G3550
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Study link James 4:11–12 Source Gloss
a legislator
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
James 4:12 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
νομοθέτης, nomoqethv
a law-giver, legislator
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Nominative (1) Number pattern Singular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Jas 4:12 1×
Sampled Scripture Occurrences
Representative Scripture witnesses for this entry: passage, original form, and sense in context.
New Testament Witnesses
lawgiver
Additional Occurrences
lawgiver
Word Origins
νομοθέτης is built from these roots:
Why This Word Matters
Affirms God’s exclusive authority to legislate and judge. James 4:11–12
Canonical Themes
Justice
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain