Strong's #3056: logos (pronounced log'-os)
from 3004; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):--account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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logos
1) of speech
1a) a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea
1b) what someone has said
1b1) a word
1b2) the sayings of God
1b3) decree, mandate or order
1b4) of the moral precepts given by God
1b5) Old Testament prophecy given by the prophets
1b6) what is declared, a thought, declaration, aphorism, a weighty saying, a dictum, a maxim
1c) discourse
1c1) the act of speaking, speech
1c2) the faculty of speech, skill and practice in speaking
1c3) a kind or style of speaking
1c4) a continuous speaking discourse - instruction
1d) doctrine, teaching
1e) anything reported in speech; a narration, narrative
1f) matter under discussion, thing spoken of, affair, a matter in dispute, case, suit at law
1g) the thing spoken of or talked about; event, deed
2) its use as respect to the MIND alone
2a) reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating, reasoning, calculating
2b) account, i.e. regard, consideration
2c) account, i.e. reckoning, score
2d) account, i.e. answer or explanation in reference to judgment
2e) relation, i.e. with whom as judge we stand in relation
2e1) reason would
2f) reason, cause, ground
3) In John, denotes the essential Word of God, Jesus Christ, the personal wisdom and power in union with God, his minister in creation and government of the universe, the cause of all the world' s life both physical and ethical, which for the procurement of man' s salvation put on human nature in the person of Jesus the Messiah, the second person in the Godhead, and shone forth conspicuously from His words and deeds.
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from G3004
Citing in TDNT: 4:69, 505
Usage:
This word is used 331 times:
Matthew 5:32: "shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her"
Matthew 5:37: "But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay:"
Matthew 7:24: "whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth"
Matthew 7:26: "every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them"
Matthew 7:28: "Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at"
Matthew 8:8: "roof: but speak the word only, and my servant"
Matthew 8:16: "he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:"
Matthew 10:14: "you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house"
Matthew 12:32: "And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son"
Matthew 12:36: "that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in"
Matthew 12:37: "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy"
Matthew 12:37: "and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."
Matthew 13:19: "When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth"
Matthew 13:20: "is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy"
Matthew 13:21: "persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended."
Matthew 13:22: "thorns is he that heareth the word; and the"
Matthew 13:22: "the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh"
Matthew 13:23: "is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also"
Matthew 15:12: "Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?"
Matthew 15:23: "answered her not a word. And his disciples came"
Matthew 18:23: "a certain king, which would take account of his"
Matthew 19:1: "Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and"
Matthew 19:11: "All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given."
Matthew 19:22: "when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had"
Matthew 21:24: "will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me,"
Matthew 22:15: "they might entangle him in his talk."
Matthew 22:46: "was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from"
Matthew 24:35: "shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."
Matthew 25:19: "servants cometh, and reckoneth with them."
Matthew 26:1: "had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,"
Matthew 26:44: "saying the same words."
Matthew 28:15: "they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until"
Mark 1:45: "and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more"
Mark 2:2: "door: and he preached the word unto them."
Mark 4:14: "sower soweth the word."
Mark 4:15: "way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard,"
Mark 4:15: "and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts."
Mark 4:16: "who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it"
Mark 4:17: "or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended."
Mark 4:18: "thorns; such as hear the word,"
Mark 4:19: "entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful."
Mark 4:20: "such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit,"
Mark 4:33: "parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear"
Mark 5:36: "Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue,"
Mark 7:13: " Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered:"
Mark 7:29: "unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone"
Mark 8:32: "And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him,"
Mark 8:38: "shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous"
Mark 9:10: "And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the"
Mark 10:22: "he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had"
