“law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle)”
Definition
Strong’s Definition
law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
a law, Rom. 4:15; 1 Tim. 1:9; the Mosaic law, Mt. 5:17, et al. freq.; the Old Testament Scripture, Jn. 10:34; a legal tie, Rom. 7:2, 3; a law, a rule, standard, Rom. 3:27; a rule of life and conduct, Gal. 6:2, Jas. 1:25
Translated in KJV as
Etymology
from a primary (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals);
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“Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?”