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:
Acts 10:36: "The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching"
Acts 10:44: "all them which heard the word."
Acts 11:1: "had also received the word of God."
Acts 11:19: "Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only."
Acts 11:22: "Then tidings of these things came unto the ears"
Acts 12:24: "But the word of God grew and multiplied."
Acts 13:5: "Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues"
Acts 13:7: "and desired to hear the word of God."
Acts 13:15: "and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for"
Acts 13:26: "God, to you is the word of this salvation sent."
Acts 13:44: "came almost the whole city together to hear the word"
Acts 13:46: "It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you:"
Acts 13:48: "and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as"
Acts 13:49: "And the word of the Lord was published throughout all"
Acts 14:3: "which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted"
Acts 14:12: "because he was the chief speaker."
Acts 14:25: "And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into"
Acts 15:6: "for to consider of this matter."
Acts 15:7: "by my mouth should hear the word"
Acts 15:7: "by my mouth should hear the word"
Acts 15:15: "to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,"
Acts 15:24: "us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying,"
Acts 15:27: "tell you the same things by mouth."
Acts 15:32: "brethren with many words, and confirmed"
Acts 15:35: "and preaching the word of the Lord, with many"
Acts 15:36: "city where we have preached the word of the Lord,"
Acts 16:6: "Ghost to preach the word in Asia,"
Acts 16:32: "they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all"
Acts 16:36: "keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates"
Acts 17:11: "in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched"
Acts 17:13: "had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul"
Acts 18:11: "months, teaching the word of God among them."
Acts 18:14: "wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:"
Acts 18:15: "it be a question of words and names, and of"
Acts 19:10: "in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both"
Acts 19:20: "mightily grew the word of God and prevailed."
Acts 19:38: "which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open,"
Acts 19:40: "whereby we may give an account of this concourse."
Acts 20:2: "had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,"
Acts 20:7: "morrow; and continued his speech until midnight."
Acts 20:24: "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life"
Acts 20:32: "to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up,"
Acts 20:35: "and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how"
Acts 20:38: "most of all for the words which he spake, that they should"
Acts 22:22: "they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their"
Romans 3:4: "That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome"
Romans 9:6: "Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For"
Romans 9:9: "For this is the word of promise, At this time"
Romans 9:28: "For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because"
Romans 9:28: "righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the"
