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:
Mark 10:24: "were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again,"
Mark 11:29: "I will also ask of you one question, and answer me,"
Mark 12:13: "to catch him in his words."
Mark 13:31: "shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away."
Mark 14:39: "and spake the same words."
Mark 16:20: "them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen."
Luke 1:2: "which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;"
Luke 1:4: "thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed."
Luke 1:20: "believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their"
Luke 1:29: "him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation"
Luke 3:4: "it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying,"
Luke 4:22: "wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his"
Luke 4:32: "doctrine: for his word was with power."
Luke 4:36: "among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with"
Luke 5:1: "him to hear the word of God, he stood"
Luke 5:15: "But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great"
Luke 6:47: "and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show"
Luke 7:7: "unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant"
Luke 7:17: "And this rumor of him went forth throughout all"
Luke 8:11: "seed is the word of God."
Luke 8:12: "and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest"
Luke 8:13: "they hear, receive the word with joy; and these"
Luke 8:15: "heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with"
Luke 8:21: "these which hear the word of God, and do it."
Luke 9:26: "shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son"
Luke 9:28: "days after these sayings, he took Peter and"
Luke 9:44: "Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for"
Luke 10:39: "feet, and heard his word."
Luke 11:28: "blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."
Luke 12:10: "And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son"
Luke 16:2: "of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest"
Luke 20:3: "I will also ask you one thing; and answer me:"
Luke 20:20: "that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power"
Luke 21:33: "shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away."
Luke 22:61: "Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said"
Luke 23:9: "with him in many words; but he answered him"
Luke 24:17: "unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another,"
Luke 24:19: "in deed and word before God and all"
Luke 24:44: "unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you,"
John 1:1: "the beginning was the Word, and the Word was"
John 1:1: "Word, and the Word was with God, and"
John 1:1: "God, and the Word was God."
John 1:14: "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among"
John 2:22: "Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said."
John 4:37: "And herein is that saying true, One soweth,"
John 4:39: "him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told"
John 4:41: "believed because of his own word;"
John 4:50: "man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him,"
John 5:24: "He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,"
John 5:38: "ye have not his word abiding in you: for"
