The New Testament Greek Lexicon  Strong's Number:  3056 encodedOriginalWord Original Word Word Origin   λόγος   from (3004) Transliterated Word Phonetic Spelling   logos   log'-os MediaPlayer Parts of Speech TDNT   Noun Masculine   4:69,505  Definition   of speech a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea what someone has said a word the sayings of God decree, mandate or order of the moral precepts given by God Old Testament prophecy given by the prophets what is declared, a thought, declaration, aphorism, a weighty saying, a dictum, a maxim discourse the act of speaking, speech the faculty of speech, skill and practice in speaking a kind or style of speaking a continuous speaking discourse - instruction doctrine, teaching anything reported in speech; a narration, narrative matter under discussion, thing spoken of, affair, a matter in dispute, case, suit at law the thing spoken of or talked about; event, deed its use as respect to the MIND alone reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating, reasoning, calculating account, i.e. regard, consideration account, i.e. reckoning, score account, i.e. answer or explanation in reference to judgment relation, i.e. with whom as judge we stand in relation reason would reason, cause, ground 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 around 600 B.C. to designate the divine reason or plan which coordinates a changing universe. This word was well suited to John's purpose in John 1.  Translated Words   KJV (330) - Word (Christ), 7; account, 8; misc, 32; not tr, 2; saying, 50; speech, 8; thing, 5; word, 218; NAS (325) - account, 1; accounting, 2; accounts, 2; answer, 1; appearance, 1; complaint, 1; exhortation, 1; have to do, 1; instruction, 1; length, 1; matter, 4; matters, 1; message, 10; news, 3; preaching, 1; question, 2; reason, 2; reasonable, 1; remark, 1; report, 1; said, 1; say, 1; saying, 4; sayings, 1; speaker, 1; speech, 10; statement, 18; story, 1; talk, 1; teaching, 2; thing, 2; things, 1; utterance, 2; what, 1; what he says, 1; word, 179; words, 61;  Verse Count KJV NAS   Matthew 30 Mark 23 Luke 33 John 36 Acts 64 Romans 7 1 Corinthians 14 2 Corinthians 9 Galatians 2 Ephesians 4 Philippians 4 Colossians 7 1 Thessalonians 7 2 Thessalonians 5 1 Timothy 8 2 Timothy 7 Titus 5 Hebrews 12 James 5 1 Peter 5 2 Peter 4 1 John 7 3 John 1 Revelation 17   Matthew 31 Mark 23 Luke 33 John 36 Acts 65 Romans 7 1 Corinthians 14 2 Corinthians 9 Galatians 2 Ephesians 4 Philippians 4 Colossians 7 1 Thessalonians 7 2 Thessalonians 5 1 Timothy 8 2 Timothy 7 Titus 5 Hebrews 12 James 5 1 Peter 5 2 Peter 4 1 John 6 3 John 1 Revelation 18 Search This Resource   Choose a letter below to browse the alphabetical list: a b g d e z h q  i k l m n c o p  r s t u f x y w   Previous Next logomachia logche   Additional Resources Encyclopedias  · International Standard Bible Encyclopedia   Get The Fonts  Download Now!  · Windows Version  · MacIntosh Version  · Linux Version   How to Install …   Buy This Resource Thayer's $12.99  Shop All Greek Lexicons

Abbreviations Legend: TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament; Copyright Statement The New Testament Greek Lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain. NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries. Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. http://www.lockman.org/. Bibliography Information Thayer and Smith. "Greek Lexicon entry for Logos". "The New Testament Greek Lexicon". <http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=3056>.