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:
John 6:60: "This is a hard saying; who can hear it?"
John 7:36: "What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me,"
John 7:40: "people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is"
John 8:31: "continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;"
John 8:37: "me, because my word hath no place in you."
John 8:43: "ye cannot hear my word."
John 8:51: "a man keep my saying, he shall never see"
John 8:52: "a man keep my saying, he shall never taste"
John 8:55: "and keep his saying."
John 10:19: "Jews for these sayings."
John 10:35: "unto whom the word of God came, and the"
John 12:38: "That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which"
John 12:48: "one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge"
John 14:23: "me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love"
John 14:24: "keepeth not my sayings: and the word which"
John 14:24: "sayings: and the word which ye hear is not"
John 15:3: "clean through the word which I have spoken unto you."
John 15:20: "Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant"
John 15:20: "if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."
John 15:25: "But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their"
John 17:6: "and they have kept thy word."
John 17:6: "and they have kept thy word."
John 17:14: "have given them thy word; and the world hath hated"
John 17:17: "thy truth: thy word is truth."
John 17:20: "them also which shall believe on me through their word;"
John 18:9: "That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them"
John 18:32: "That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying"
John 19:8: "therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;"
John 19:13: "therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and"
John 21:23: "Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that"
Acts 1:1: "The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of"
Acts 2:22: "of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved"
Acts 2:40: "And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying,"
Acts 2:41: "they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the"
Acts 4:4: "many of them which heard the word believed; and the number"
Acts 4:29: "all boldness they may speak thy word,"
Acts 4:31: "Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness."
Acts 5:5: "Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great"
Acts 5:24: "the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them"
Acts 6:2: "that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables."
Acts 6:4: "to the ministry of the word."
Acts 6:5: "And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and"
Acts 6:7: "And the word of God increased; and the number"
Acts 7:22: "was mighty in words and in deeds."
Acts 7:29: "Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in"
Acts 8:4: "went every where preaching the word."
Acts 8:14: "Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them"
Acts 8:21: "lot in this matter: for thy heart is"
Acts 8:25: "had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned"
Acts 10:29: "I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?"
