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λόγος

logosword
greekNew TestamentNoun · masculine331 occurrences24 books318 verses

Definition

λόγος, -ου, ὁ (λέγω)

[in LXX chiefly for דָּבָר, also for מִלָּה ,אֵמֶר, etc. ;]

I. Of that by which the inward thought is expressed, Lat. oratio, sermo, vox, verbum.

1. a word, not in the grammatical sense of a mere name (ἔπος, ὄνομα, ῥῆμα), but a word as embodying a conception or idea: Matthew 8:8, Luke 7:7, 1 Corinthians 14:9, 19, Hebrews 12:19, al.

2. a saying, statement, declaration: Matthew 19:22 (T om.), Mark 5:36; 7:29, Luke 1:29, John 2:22; 6:60, Acts 7:29, al.; with genitive attrib., Acts 13:15, Romans 9:9, Hebrews 7:28, al.; of the sayings, commands, promises, etc., of teachers, Matthew 7:24; 10:14, Mark 8:38, Luke 9:4, John 14:24, al.; λ. κενοί, Ephesians 5:6; ἀληθινοί, Revelation 19:9; πιστοί, Revelation 22:6; esp. of the precepts, decrees and promises of God, ὁ λ. τ. θεοῦ, the word of God: Mark 7:13, John 10:35, Romans 13:9, 1 Corinthians 14:36, Philippians 1:14, al.; absol., ὁ λ., Matthew 13:21, 22 Mrk.16:[20], Luke 1:2, Acts 6:4, Hebrews 4:12, al.

3. speech, discourse: Acts 14:12, 2 Corinthians 10:10, James 3:2; opposite to ἐπιστολή, 2 Thessalonians 2:15; disting, from σοφία, 1 Corinthians 2:1; ἀναστροφή, 1 Timothy 4:12; δύναμις, 1 Corinthians 4:19, 1 Thessalonians 1:5; ἔργον, Romans 15:18; οὐδενὸς λ. τίμιον (not worthy of mention), Acts 20:24; of the faculty of speech, Luke 24:19, 2 Corinthians 11:6; of the style of speech, Matthew 5:37, 1 Corinthians 1:5; of instruction, Colossians 4:3, 1 Peter 3:1; with genitive of person(s), John 5:24; 8:52, Acts 2:41, al.; ὁ λ. ὁ ἐμός, John 8:31; with genitive obj. (τ.) ἀληθείας, 2 Corinthians 6:7, Colossians 1:5, James 1:18; τ. καταλλαγῆς, 2 Corinthians 5:19; τ. σταυροῦ, 1 Corinthians 1:18; of mere talk, 1 Corinthians 4:19, 2o, Colossians 2:23, 1 John 3:18; of the talk which one occasions, hence, repute: Colossians 2:23.

4. subject-matter, hence, teaching, doctrine: Acts 18:15, 2 Timothy 2:17, al.; esp. of Christian doctrine: Matthew 13:20-23, Mark 4:14-20; 8:32, Luke 1:2, Acts 8:4, Galatians 6:6, 1 Thessalonians 1:6, al.; with genitive of person(s), τ. θεοῦ, Luke 5:1, John 17:6, Acts 4:29, 1 Corinthians 14:36, I John 1:10, Revelation 6:9, al.; τ. Κυρίου, Acts 8:25, 1 Thessalonians 1:8, al.; τ. Χριστοῦ, Colossians 3:16, Revelation 3:8; with genitive appos., Acts 15:7; with genitive attrib., Hebrews 5:13.

5. a story, tale, narrative: Matthew 28:15, John 21:23, Acts 1:1; 11:22; before περί, Luke 5:15.

6. That which is spoken of (Plat., al.; V. Kennedy, Sources, 124), matter, affair, thing: Matthew 21:24, Mark 1:45; 11:29, Luke 20:3, Acts 8:21; of a matter in dispute, as a case or suit at law, Acts 19:38; pl. (1Ma.7.33, al.), Luke 1:4.

II. Of the inward thought itself, Lat. ratio.

1. reason,

(a) of the mental faculty (Hdt., Plat., al.): κατὰ λόγον, Acts 18:14;

(b) a reason, cause: τίνι λόγῳ, Acts 10:29; παρεκτὸς λόγου πορνείας, Matthew 5:32; 19:9, WH, mg., R, mg.

2. account,

(a) regard: Acts 20:24, Rec.;

(b) reckoning: Philippians 4:15, 17; συναίρειν (which see) λ., Matthew 18:23; 25:19; in forensic sense, Romans 14:12, Hebrews 13:17, 1 Peter 4:5; with genitive of thing(s), Luke 16:2; before περί, Matthew 12:36, Acts 19:40, 1 Peter 3:15.

3. proportion, analogy: Philippians 2:16 (Field, Notes, 193 f.).

III. ὁ λ., the Divine Word or Logos: John 1:1, 14; τ. ζωῆς, 1 John 1:1; τ. θεοῦ, Revelation 19:13 (see Westc, Swete, CGT, in ll.; reff. in Artt., Logos, DB, DCG).

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

331 total
  1. John 5:38λόγον · word
    …nor does His word abide in you, because you do not believe the One He sent.
  2. John 6:60λόγος · teaching
    On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
  3. John 7:36λόγος · does He mean
    What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”
  4. John 7:40λόγων · words
    On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”
  5. John 8:31λόγῳ · word
    So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
  6. John 8:37λόγος · word
    I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.
  7. John 8:43λόγον · message
    Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
  8. John 8:51λόγον · word
    Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”
  9. John 8:52λόγον · word
    “Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.
  10. John 8:55λόγον · word
    You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
  11. John 10:19λόγους · message
    Again there was division among the Jews because of Jesus’ message.
  12. John 10:35λόγος · word
    If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
  13. John 12:38λόγος · word
    This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
  14. John 12:48λόγος · word
    There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
  15. John 14:23λόγον · word
    Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
  16. John 14:24 (2×)λόγους · words; λόγος · word
    Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.
  17. John 15:3λόγον · word
    You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
  18. John 15:20 (2×)λόγου · word; λόγον · word
    Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
  19. John 15:25λόγος · [what]
    But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
  20. John 17:6λόγον · word
    I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
  21. John 17:14λόγον · word
    I have given them Your word and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
  22. John 17:17λόγος · word
    Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
  23. John 17:20λόγου · message
    I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message,
  24. John 18:9λόγος · word
    This was to fulfill the word He had spoken: “I have not lost one of those You have given Me.”
  25. John 18:32λόγος · word
    This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.
  26. John 19:8λόγον · statement
    When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
  27. John 19:13λόγων · words
    When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, which in Hebrew is Gabbatha.
  28. John 21:23λόγος · rumor
    Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple would not die. However, Jesus did not say that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I return, what is that to you?”
  29. Acts 1:1λόγον · book
    In my first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach,
  30. Acts 2:22λόγους · message
    Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.
  31. Acts 2:40λόγοις · words
    With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
  32. Acts 2:41λόγον · message
    Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
  33. Acts 4:4λόγον · message
    But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
  34. Acts 4:29λόγον · word
    And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,
  35. Acts 4:31λόγον · word
    After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
  36. Acts 5:5λόγους · words
    On hearing these words, Ananias fell down and died. And great fear came over all who heard what had happened.
  37. Acts 5:24λόγους · account
    When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
  38. Acts 6:2λόγον · word
    So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.
  39. Acts 6:4λόγου · word
    …and will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
  40. Acts 6:5λόγος · proposal
    This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, as well as Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
  41. Acts 6:7λόγος · word
    So the word of God continued to spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem grew rapidly, and a great number of priests became obedient to the faith.
  42. Acts 7:22λόγοις · speech
    So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
  43. Acts 7:29λόγῳ · remark
    At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
  44. Acts 8:4λόγον · word
    Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.
  45. Acts 8:14λόγον · word
    When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
  46. Acts 8:21λόγῳ · ministry
    You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
  47. Acts 8:25λόγον · word
    And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.
  48. Acts 10:29λόγῳ
    So when I was invited, I came without objection. I ask, then, why have you sent for me?”