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Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains is unavailable, but you can change that!

Louw-Nida Greek Lexicon is a modern Greek lexicon using the concept of "semantic domains." This lexicon differs from other lexicons in that it does not arrange words alphabetically and it does not give one listing of a word with all of that word's meanings after it. Instead, it breaks words down by their various shades of meaning. It then groups all of those entries together and organizes them by...

a, ου m; δόγμαa, τος n: a formalized rule (or set of rules) prescribing what people must do—‘law, ordinance, rule.’ νόμοςa: ὃς οὐ κατὰ νόμον ἐντολῆς σαρκίνης γέγονεν ‘he was not made (a priest) by the law of human decree’ He 7:16. δόγμαa: παρεδίδοσαν αὐτοῖς φυλάσσειν τὰ δόγματα ‘they delivered to them the rules which they were to obey’ Ac 16:4. The difference between ‘a law’ and ‘a command’ is that a law is enforced by sanctions from a society, while a command carries
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