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:
Romans 13:9: "it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy"
Romans 14:12: "every one of us shall give account of himself to God."
Romans 15:18: "me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,"
1 Corinthians 1:5: "him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;"
1 Corinthians 1:17: "not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ"
1 Corinthians 1:18: "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish"
1 Corinthians 2:1: "not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you"
1 Corinthians 2:4: "And my speech and my preaching was not with"
1 Corinthians 2:4: "was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in"
1 Corinthians 2:13: "we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but"
1 Corinthians 4:19: "will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power."
1 Corinthians 4:20: "of God is not in word, but in power."
1 Corinthians 12:8: "is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another"
1 Corinthians 12:8: "the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the"
1 Corinthians 14:9: "by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken?"
1 Corinthians 14:19: "I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that"
1 Corinthians 14:19: "also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue."
1 Corinthians 14:36: "What? came the word of God out from you? or"
1 Corinthians 15:2: "if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless"
1 Corinthians 15:54: "then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in"
2 Corinthians 1:18: "as God is true, our word toward you was"
2 Corinthians 2:17: "many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of"
2 Corinthians 4:2: "in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but"
2 Corinthians 5:19: "unto us the word of reconciliation."
2 Corinthians 6:7: "By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the"
2 Corinthians 8:7: "every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all"
2 Corinthians 10:10: "his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible."
2 Corinthians 10:11: "that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such"
2 Corinthians 11:6: "But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge;"
Galatians 5:14: "is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy"
Galatians 6:6: "Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all"
Ephesians 1:13: "also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your"
Ephesians 4:29: "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth,"
Ephesians 5:6: "deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh"
Ephesians 6:19: "for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open"
Philippians 1:14: "are much more bold to speak the word without fear."
Philippians 2:16: "Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in"
Philippians 4:15: "church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving,"
Philippians 4:17: "that may abound to your account."
Colossians 1:5: "ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;"
Colossians 1:25: "you, to fulfill the word of God;"
Colossians 2:23: "Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship,"
Colossians 3:16: "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in"
Colossians 3:17: "whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all"
Colossians 4:3: "would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ,"
Colossians 4:6: "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know"
1 Thessalonians 1:5: "unto you in word only, but also in"
1 Thessalonians 1:6: "Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with"
1 Thessalonians 1:8: "you sounded out the word of the Lord not only"
1 Thessalonians 2:5: "For neither at any time used we flattering words, as"
