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λόγος
lógos · Greek · Strong's G3056 · 330 occurrences
The KJV renders 30 different Hebrew and Greek words as “thing”
What it means
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)
from G3004 (λέγω);
How the KJV renders it
account, cause, communication, x concerning, doctrine, fame, x have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, remove, say, shew, x speaker, speech, talk, thing, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“thing”
also renders tìs (G5100), asthenḗs (G772), hágios (G40), mēdeís (G3367), tís (G5101), oudeís (G3762), prâgma (G4229), nomízō (G3543), ʼômer (H562), gâdôwl (H1419), dâbâr (H1697), zûwr (H2114), chay (H2416), ṭûwb (H2898), yârêʼ (H3372), kôl (H3605), kᵉlîy (H3627), mᵉlâʼkâh (H4399), mᵉʻaṭ (H4592), niddâh (H5079), nephesh (H5315), ʻôsheq (H6233), piggûwl (H6292), qôdesh (H6944), qâlal (H7043), qâsheh (H7186), raʻ (H7451), tahpukâh (H8419), tôwʻêbah (H8441)
“shew”
also renders emphanízō (G1718), poiéō (G4160), dēlóō (G1213), mēnýō (G3377), katatíthēmi (G2698), apangéllō (G518), parístēmi (G3936), dídōmi (G1325), apodeíknymi (G584), epideíknymi (G1925), phaneróō (G5319), anadeíknymi (G322), paréchō (G3930), katangéllō (G2605), diēgéomai (G1334), deiknýō (G1166), próthesis (G4286), légō (G3004), gâlâh (H1540), hakkârâh (H1971), chăvâʼ (H2324), châzaq (H2388), yâdaʻ (H3045), yârâh (H3384), nâthan (H5414), ʻâsâh (H6213), shîyth (H7896), shâmaʻ (H8085)
“work”
also renders ergázomai (G2038), poiéō (G4160), ergasía (G2039), érgon (G2041), prâxis (G4234), katergázomai (G2716), energéō (G1754), prâgma (G4229), dâbâr (H1697), châshab (H2803), yᵉgîyaʻ (H3018), yêtser (H3336), mᵉlâʼkâh (H4399), maʻbâd (H4566), maʻbâd (H4567), maʻălâl (H4611), miphʻâl (H4659), miqshâh (H4749), ʻăbad (H5648), ʻăbôdâh (H5656), ʻăbîydâh (H5673), ʻălîylâh (H5949), ʻâsâh (H6213), pâlâʼ (H6381), pâʻal (H6466), pôʻal (H6467), pᵉʻullâh (H6468)
“remove”
“cause”
“reason”
“matter”
also renders hýlē (G5208), prâgma (G4229), gâdôwl (H1419), dâbâr (H1697), chêphets (H2656), ṭaʻam (H2941), millâh (H4405), millâh (H4406), pithgâm (H6600)
“say”
“fame”
also renders akoḗ (G189), diaphēmízō (G1310), phḗmē (G5345), ēchos (G2279), qôwl (H6963), shᵉmûwʻâh (H8052), shêmaʻ (H8088), shômaʻ (H8089)
“speech”
“talk”
“word”
“account”
“question”
“doctrine”
“tidings”
“intent”
“communication”
also renders homilía (G3657), sîyach (H7879)
“preaching”
also renders kḗrygma (G2782)
“utterance”
also renders apophthéngomai (G669)
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Where it appears
330 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 1:5 · N-DSM
that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge—
1 Corinthians 1:17 · N-GSM
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.
1 Corinthians 1:18 · N-NSM
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:1 · N-GSM
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
1 Corinthians 2:4 · N-DPM
My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1 Corinthians 2:13 · N-DPM
We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
1 Corinthians 4:19 N-ASM1 Corinthians 4:20 N-DSM1 Corinthians 12:8 N-NSM1 Corinthians 14:9 N-ASM1 Corinthians 14:19 N-APM1 Corinthians 14:36 N-NSM1 Corinthians 15:2 N-DSM1 Corinthians 15:54 N-NSM1 John 1:1 N-GSM1 John 1:10 N-NSM1 John 2:5 N-ASM1 John 2:7 N-NSM1 John 2:14 N-NSM1 John 3:18 N-DSM1 Peter 1:23 N-GSM1 Peter 2:8 N-DSM1 Peter 3:1 N-DSM1 Peter 3:15 N-ASM1 Peter 4:5 N-ASM1 Thessalonians 1:5 N-DSM1 Thessalonians 1:6 N-ASM1 Thessalonians 1:8 N-NSM1 Thessalonians 2:5 N-DSM1 Thessalonians 2:13 N-ASM1 Thessalonians 4:15 N-DSM1 Thessalonians 4:18 N-DPM1 Timothy 1:15 N-NSM1 Timothy 3:1 N-NSM1 Timothy 4:5 N-GSM1 Timothy 4:6 N-DPM1 Timothy 4:9 N-NSM1 Timothy 4:12 N-DSM1 Timothy 5:17 N-DSM1 Timothy 6:3 N-DPM2 Corinthians 1:18 N-NSM2 Corinthians 2:17 N-ASM2 Corinthians 4:2 N-ASM2 Corinthians 5:19 N-ASM2 Corinthians 6:7 N-DSM2 Corinthians 8:7 N-DSM2 Corinthians 10:10 N-NSM2 Corinthians 10:11 N-DSM2 Corinthians 11:6 N-DSM2 Peter 1:19 N-ASM2 Peter 2:3 N-DPM2 Peter 3:5 N-DSM2 Peter 3:7 N-DSM2 Thessalonians 2:2 N-GSM2 Thessalonians 2:15 N-GSM2 Thessalonians 2:17 N-DSM2 Thessalonians 3:1 N-NSM2 Thessalonians 3:14 N-DSM2 Timothy 1:13 N-GPM2 Timothy 2:9 N-NSM
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