- Transliteration: Dogma

- Phonetic: dog'-mah

- Definition:

1. doctrine, decree, ordinance

a. of public decrees

b. of the Roman Senate

c. of rulers

2. the rules and requirements of the law of Moses; carrying a suggestion of severity and of threatened judgment

3. of certain decrees of the apostles relative to right living

- Origin: from the base of G1380" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1380

- TDNT entry: 05:50,2

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: From the base of G1380" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1380; a law (civil ceremonial or ecclesiastical): - decree ordinance.