- Original: λόγος
- Transliteration: Logos
- Phonetic: log'-os
- Definition:
1. of speech
a. a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea
b. what someone has said
1. a word
2. the sayings of God
3. decree, mandate or order
4. of the moral precepts given by God
5. Old Testament prophecy given by the prophets
6. what is declared, a thought, declaration, aphorism, a weighty saying, a dictum, a maxim
c. discourse
1. the act of speaking, speech
2. the faculty of speech, skill and practice in speaking
3. a kind or style of speaking
4. a continuous speaking discourse - instruction
d. doctrine, teaching
e. anything reported in speech; a narration, narrative
f. matter under discussion, thing spoken of, affair, a matter in dispute, case, suit at law
g. the thing spoken of or talked about; event, deed
2. its use as respect to the MIND alone
a. reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating, reasoning, calculating
b. account, i.e. regard, consideration
c. account, i.e. reckoning, score
d. account, i.e. answer or explanation in reference to judgment
e. relation, i.e. with whom as judge we stand in relation
1. reason would
f. 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. A Greek philosopher named heraclitus first used the term Logos around600 B.C. to designate the divine reason or plan which coordinates achanging universe. This word was well suited to John's purpose inJohn 1.
- Origin: from
G3004
- TDNT entry: 05:09,5
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine
- Strong's: From
G3004 ; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse) also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the divine Expression (that is 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.
Total KJV Occurrences: 256
• abroad, 2
Luke 5:15; Joh 21:23
• account, 5
Act 19:40;
Romans 14:12;
Philippians 4:17;
Hebrews 13:17;
1 Peter 4:5
• came, 1
Act 11:22
• communication, 1
Eph 4:29
• concerning, 1
Philippians 4:15
• deceitfully, 1
2 Corinthians 4:2
• do, 1
Hebrews 4:13
• doctrine, 1
Hebrews 6:1
• exhortation, 1
Act 20:2
• intent, 1
Act 10:29
• matter, 4
Mar 1:45; Act 8:21; Act 15:6; Act 19:38
• me, 1
Act 20:24
• mouth, 1
Act 15:27
• preaching, 1
1 Corinthians 1:18
• reason, 2
Act 18:14;
1 Peter 3:15
• rumor, 1
Luke 7:17
• say, 1
Hebrews 5:11
• saying, 28
Mat 15:12; Mat 19:22; Mat 28:15; Mar 8:32; Mar 9:10; Mar 10:22;
Luke 1:29; Joh 4:39; Joh 6:60; Joh 7:36; Joh 7:40; Joh 8:52; Joh 12:38; Joh 18:9; Joh 18:32; Joh 19:8; Joh 19:13; Act 6:5; Act 7:29; Act 16:36;
Romans 13:9;
1 Corinthians 15:54;
1 Timothy 1:15;
1 Timothy 3:1;
1 Timothy 4:9;
2 Timothy 2:11;
Titus 3:8;
Revelation 22:7
• sayings, 10
Mat 7:28; Mat 19:1; Mat 26:1;
Luke 9:28; Joh 10:19;
Romans 3:4;
Revelation 19:9;
Revelation 22:6;
Revelation 22:9;
Revelation 22:10
• show, 1
Colossians 2:23
• speaker, 1
Act 14:12
• speech, 8
Act 20:7;
1 Corinthians 2:1;
1 Corinthians 2:4;
1 Corinthians 4:19;
2 Corinthians 10:10;
2 Corinthians 11:6;
Colossians 4:6;
Titus 2:8
• talk, 1
Mat 22:15
• things, 2
Luke 1:4; Act 5:24
• treatise, 1
Act 1:1
• utterance, 4
1 Corinthians 1:5;
2 Corinthians 8:7; Eph 6:19;
Colossians 4:3
• word, 135
Mat 8:8; Mat 8:16; Mat 15:23; Mat 22:46; Mar 2:2; Mar 4:33; Mar 5:36; Mar 16:20;
Luke 1:2;
Luke 4:32;
Luke 4:36;
Luke 5:1;
Luke 7:7;
Luke 10:39;
Luke 22:61;
Luke 24:19; Joh 1:1(3); Joh 1:14; Joh 2:22; Joh 4:41; Joh 4:50; Act 2:41; Act 4:4; Act 4:29; Act 4:31; Act 6:2; Act 6:4; Act 6:7; Act 8:4; Act 8:14; Act 8:25; Act 10:36; Act 10:44; Act 11:1; Act 11:19; Act 12:24; Act 13:5; Act 13:7; Act 13:15; Act 13:26; Act 13:44; Act 13:46; Act 13:48; Act 13:49; Act 14:3; Act 14:25; Act 15:7; Act 15:35; Act 15:36; Act 16:6; Act 16:32; Act 17:11; Act 17:13; Act 18:11; Act 19:10; Act 19:20; Act 20:32; Act 22:22;
Romans 9:6;
Romans 9:9;
Romans 15:18;
1 Corinthians 4:20;
1 Corinthians 12:8(2);
1 Corinthians 14:36;
2 Corinthians 1:18;
2 Corinthians 5:19;
2 Corinthians 6:7;
2 Corinthians 10:11;
Galatians 5:14;
Galatians 6:6; Eph 1:13;
Philippians 1:14;
Philippians 2:16;
Colossians 1:5;
Colossians 1:25;
Colossians 3:16;
Colossians 3:17;
1 Thessalonians 1:5;
1 Thessalonians 1:6;
1 Thessalonians 1:8;
1 Thessalonians 2:13(3);
1 Thessalonians 4:15;
2 Thessalonians 2:2;
2 Thessalonians 2:15;
2 Thessalonians 2:17;
2 Thessalonians 3:1;
2 Thessalonians 3:14;
1 Timothy 4:5;
1 Timothy 4:12;
1 Timothy 5:17;
2 Timothy 2:9;
2 Timothy 2:15;
2 Timothy 2:17;
2 Timothy 4:2;
Titus 1:3;
Titus 1:9;
Titus 2:5;
Hebrews 2:2;
Hebrews 4:2;
Hebrews 4:12;
Hebrews 5:13;
Hebrews 7:28;
Hebrews 12:19;
Hebrews 13:7;
Hebrews 13:22; Jam 1:18; Jam 1:21; Jam 1:22; Jam 1:23; Jam 3:2;
1 Peter 1:23;
1 Peter 2:8;
1 Peter 3:1(2);
2 Peter 1:19;
2 Peter 3:5;
2 Peter 3:7;
1 John 1:1;
1 John 1:10;
1 John 2:5;
1 John 2:7;
1 John 2:14;
1 John 3:18;
1 John 5:7;
Revelation 1:2;
Revelation 1:9;
Revelation 6:9;
Revelation 12:11;
Revelation 19:13;
Revelation 20:4
• words, 37
Mat 26:44; Mar 10:24; Mar 12:13; Mar 14:39;
Luke 1:20;
Luke 3:4;
Luke 4:22;
Luke 20:20;
Luke 23:9; Act 2:22; Act 2:40; Act 5:5; Act 7:22; Act 15:15; Act 15:24; Act 15:32; Act 18:15; Act 20:35; Act 20:38;
1 Corinthians 1:17;
1 Corinthians 2:4;
1 Corinthians 2:13;
1 Corinthians 14:9;
1 Corinthians 14:19(2); Eph 5:6;
1 Thessalonians 2:5;
1 Thessalonians 4:18;
1 Timothy 4:6;
1 Timothy 6:3;
2 Timothy 1:13;
2 Timothy 4:15;
2 Peter 2:3;
3 John 1:10;
Revelation 1:3;
Revelation 22:18;
Revelation 22:19
• work, 2
Romans 9:28(2)
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