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logos

logos {log'-os}
Greek: noun masculine

Possible Definitions:
1) of speech
1a) a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea
1b) 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
1c) 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
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 judgement
2e) relation, i.e. with whom as judge we stand in relation, - 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. 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.

logos {log'-os}

Greek: noun masculine

from 3004;

Translated as:

word (218 times)

saying (50 times)

account (8 times)

speech (8 times)

Word (Christ) (7 times)

thing (5 times)

not translated (2 times)

misc (32 times)

Total: 330 times

Strong's Number 3056

TDNT - 4:69,505