Strong's #1258: dialektos (pronounced dee-al'-ek-tos)
from 1256; a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect":--language, tongue.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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dialektos
1) conversation, speech, discourse, language
2) the tongue or language peculiar to any people
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G1256
Usage:
This word is used 7 times:
Acts 1:19: "is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood."
Acts 2:6: "that every man heard them speak in his own language."
Acts 2:6: "that every man heard them speak in his own language."
Acts 2:8: "every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?"
Acts 21:40: "he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,"
Acts 22:2: "he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence:"
Acts 26:14: "saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest"