STRONGS NUMBER G3549

Original Word: νομοθετέω
Transliteration: nomotheteō
Phonetic Spelling: (nom-oth-et-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to make law, to ordain by law
Meaning: to make law, to ordain by lawestablish, receive the law.

From nomothetes; to legislate, i.e. (passively) to have (the Mosaic) enactments injoined, be sanctioned (by them) -- establish, receive the law.

see GREEK nomothetes

STRONGS NT 3549: νομοθετέω

νομοθετέω, νομοθέτω: passive, perfect 3 person singular νενομοθέτηται; pluperfect 3 person singular νενομοθέτητο (on the omission of the augment see Winers Grammar, 72 (70); Buttmann, 33 (29)); (νομοθέτης); from (Lysias), Xenophon, and Plato down; the Sept. several times for הורָה;

1. to enact laws; passive laws are enacted or prescribed for one, to be legislated for, furnished with laws (often so in Plato; cf. Ast, Platonic Lexicon, ii., p. 391 (for examples)); ὁ λαός ἐπ' αὐτῆς (R G ἐπ' αὐτῇ) νενομοθέτηται (R G νενομοθέτητο) the people received the Mosaic law established upon the foundation of the priesthood, Hebrews 7:11 (Winers Grammar, § 39, 1 b.; cf. Buttmann, 337 (290); many refer this example (with the genitive) to time (A. V. under it); see ἐπί, A. II.,cf. B. 2 a. γ.).

2. to sanction by law, enact: τί, passive Hebrews 8:6 (cf. Winers Grammar, and Buttmann, as above).