Strong's Concordance
nomikos: relating to law, learned in the law
Original Word: νομικός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: nomikos
Phonetic Spelling: (nom-ik-os')
Short Definition: about law, one learned in the Law
Definition: (a) adj: connected with law, about law, (b) noun: a lawyer, one learned in the Law, one learned in the Old Testament.
HELPS Word-studies
3544 nomikós (from 3551 /nómos, "law") – properly, an expert in Jewish law (theology); an ancient Jewish-attorney ("Scripture-lawyer"), specializing in interpreting the OT and applying the teachings of established rabbis.
3544 /nomikós ("lawyer") implies someone even more learned in the Law than a typical scribe. (Ezra would have been considered a 3544 /nomikós.)
[3544 (nomikós) is also a regular term for attorney in antiquity, i.e. an expert jurist in secular law.]
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3544: νομικόςνομικός,
νομικη,
νομικόν (
νόμος),
pertaining to (the) law (
Plato,
Aristotle, others):
μάχαι,
Titus 3:9;
ὁ νομικός,
one learned in the law, in the N. T. an interpreter and teacher of the Mosaic law (
A. V. a lawyer; cf.
γραμματεύς, 2):
Matthew 22:35;
Luke 10:25;
Titus 3:13; plural,
Luke 7:30;
Luke 11:45f, 52;
Luke 14:3.
