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 Peter 3:1: "word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation"
1 Peter 3:15: "to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope"
1 Peter 4:5: "Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and"
2 Peter 1:19: "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well"
2 Peter 2:3: "through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment"
2 Peter 3:5: "are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old,"
2 Peter 3:7: "which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire"
1 John 1:1: "have handled, of the Word of life;"
1 John 1:10: "a liar, and his word is not in us."
1 John 2:5: "whoso keepeth his word, in him verily"
1 John 2:7: "commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning."
1 John 2:14: "strong, and the word of God abideth in you,"
1 John 3:18: "little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed"
3 John 1:10: "he doth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content"
Revelation 1:2: "Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony"
Revelation 1:3: "and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written"
Revelation 1:9: "Patmos, for the word of God, and for the"
Revelation 3:8: "and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my"
Revelation 3:10: "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep"
Revelation 6:9: "of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the"
Revelation 12:11: "and by the word of their testimony; and they loved"
Revelation 19:9: "are the true sayings of God."
Revelation 19:13: "name is called The Word of God."
Revelation 20:4: "and for the word of God, and which had not"
Revelation 21:5: "Write: for these words are true and faithful."
Revelation 22:6: "he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and"
Revelation 22:7: "blessed is he that keepeth the saying of the prophecy of this book."
Revelation 22:9: "and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God."
Revelation 22:10: "Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book:"
Revelation 22:18: "unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book,"
Revelation 22:19: "shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God"
