noun · feminine
dialektas
Strong’sG1258
language, speech
stem dialekt-6 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
διά-λεκτος, -ου, ἡ
(< διαλέγομαι), [in LXX: Da LXX 1:4 (לָשׁוֹן), Es 9:26 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1258 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddee-al'-ek-tos
a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect"
Fromfrom G1256;
King Jameslanguage, tongue.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
discourse, conversation, Refs 5th c.BC+; discussion, debate, argument, Refs; opposed to ἔρις, Refs
2 common language, talk, δ. ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους Refs 4th c.BC+
II speech, language, Refs 5th c.BC+; δ. ἀμνίου, opposed to τὰ ἔνδον δράκοντος, Refs 5th c.BC+; articulate speech, language, opposed to φωνή, Refs 4th c.BC+; but also, spoken, opposed to written language, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.2 the language of a country, Refs 2nd c.BC+: especially dialect, as Ionic, Attic, etc., Refs 2nd c.BC+; also, local word or expression, Refs 1st c.AD+
III way of speaking, accent, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.2 plural, modes of expression, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV style, πανηγυρική, ποιητικὴ δ., Refs 1st c.BC+: especially poetical diction, Refs 1st c.BC+
V of musical instruments, quality, 'idiom', Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dialektas | dialektais |
| object accusative | dialektan | dialektain |
| direct address vocative | dialektar | dialektair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dialektau | dialektaiu |
| to, for dative | dialekta6×διαλέκτῳ | dialektai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
dialekta is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
dialekta“language”to, fordative singular6×
Acts 1:19… kalira tem chōriem ekeinem ta idia dialekta autoiu Hakeldamach, houtem atō Chōriem Haimeu.… called that field in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)
Acts 2:6… hoti akouale henos hekastos ta idia dialekta lalarōntoiu autoiu;… one heard them speaking his own language.
Acts 2:8… pōs nis akouanō hekastos ta idia dialekta nu en ha gennina?… hears them in his own native language?
Acts 21:40“language”… de sigau generantau prosfōnata ta Hebraida dialekta legarōntos… A great hush came over the crowd, and he addressed them in Hebrew:
Acts 22:2“language”Akouarantois de hoti ta Hebraida dialekta prosfōnate autoi mallon parechala hēsuchian. kai …When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet. Then Paul declared,
Acts 26:14“language”… fōnan legarōntan pros min ta Hebraida dialekta; Saoul Saoul, tinem min diōkasō? sklērem …… heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’