ἄνομος
anomos
“lawless”
Definition
lawless, i.e. (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law; (by implication, a Gentile), or (positively) wicked
from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G3551 (νόμος);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
G:A
Greek Adjective
Occurrences
ἄνομος appears 7 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.
We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
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