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:
1 Thessalonians 2:13: "God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of"
1 Thessalonians 2:13: "of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as"
1 Thessalonians 2:13: "but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh"
1 Thessalonians 4:15: "we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive"
1 Thessalonians 4:18: "one another with these words."
2 Thessalonians 2:2: "spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as"
2 Thessalonians 2:15: "which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our"
2 Thessalonians 2:17: "in every good word and work."
2 Thessalonians 3:1: "us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and"
2 Thessalonians 3:14: "obey not our word by this epistle, note that man,"
1 Timothy 1:15: "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ"
1 Timothy 3:1: "This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work."
1 Timothy 4:5: "For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."
1 Timothy 4:6: "minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and"
1 Timothy 4:9: "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation."
1 Timothy 4:12: "of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity,"
1 Timothy 5:17: "especially they who labor in the word and doctrine."
1 Timothy 6:3: "consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus"
2 Timothy 1:13: "Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me,"
2 Timothy 2:9: "even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound."
2 Timothy 2:11: "It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with"
2 Timothy 2:15: "that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
2 Timothy 2:17: "And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom"
2 Timothy 4:2: "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke,"
2 Timothy 4:15: "for he hath greatly withstood our words."
Titus 1:3: "times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed"
Titus 1:9: "Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be"
Titus 2:5: "husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed."
Titus 2:8: "Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed,"
Titus 3:8: "This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that"
Hebrews 2:2: "For if the word spoken by angels was"
Hebrews 4:2: "as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit"
Hebrews 4:12: "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and"
Hebrews 4:13: "unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."
Hebrews 5:11: "Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered,"
Hebrews 5:13: "that useth milk is unskillfull in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe."
Hebrews 6:1: "the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection;"
Hebrews 7:28: "infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since"
Hebrews 12:19: "which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:"
Hebrews 13:7: "have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow,"
Hebrews 13:17: "souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with"
Hebrews 13:22: "brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter"
James 1:18: "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind"
James 1:21: "meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls."
James 1:22: "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,"
James 1:23: "if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he"
James 3:2: "offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able"
1 Peter 1:23: "but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth"
1 Peter 2:8: "even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also"
1 Peter 3:1: "if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won"
