| 1. of speech
1) a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea 2) what someone has said 1b1. a word 1b2. the sayings of God 1b3. decree, mandate or order 1b4. of the moral precepts given by God 1b5. Old Testament prophecy given by the prophets 1b6. what is declared, a thought, declaration, aphorism, a weighty saying, a dictum, a maxim 3) discourse 1c1. the act of speaking, speech 1c2. the faculty of speech, skill and practice in speaking 1c3. a kind or style of speaking 1c4. a continuous speaking discourse - instruction 4) doctrine, teaching 5) anything reported in speech; a narration, narrative 6) matter under discussion, thing spoken of, affair, a matter in dispute, case, suit at law 7) the thing spoken of or talked about; event, deed 2. its use as respect to the MIND alone 1) reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating, reasoning, calculating 2) account, i.e. regard, consideration 3) account, i.e. reckoning, score 4) account, i.e. answer or explanation in reference to judgment 5) relation, i.e. with whom as judge we stand in relation 2e1. reason would 6) 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. |