noun · neuter
logiem
Strong’sG3051
divine communication
stem logi-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
λόγιον, -ου, τό
(dimin. of λόγος, v. ICC, Ro., 70), [in LXX chiefly for אִמְרָה, אֵמֶר, Ps 17 (18):30 18 (19):14, al.; also for דָּבָר, Is 28:13, al.; (cf. λογεῖον (-ιον), for חֹשֶׁן, the oracular breastplate of the H.P., Ex 28:15, al.);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3051 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlog'-ee-on
an utterance (of God)
Fromneuter of G3052;
King Jamesoracle.
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
oracle, especially one preserved from antiquity, Refs 5th c.BC+: more frequently in plural, oracles, Refs 5th c.BC+ (the former being prose, the latter verse, accusative to Refs 1st c.AD+
2 τὰ λ. Κυρίου the sayings of the Lord, LXX+NT
II τὸ λ. τῶν κρίσεων the oracular breastplate worn by the Jewish High-Priest, LXX+1st c.AD+
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 or object direct | logiem | logieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | logieu | logieiu1×λογίων |
| to, for dative | logie | logiei |
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
logie 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
logieiu“oracles”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Hebrews 5:12“oracles”… tinon teim stoicheieim tau archau teiu logieiu tou theou, kai genavē chreian echarōntois …… you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not …
logieim3×
Acts 7:38“oracles”… kai toiu patroiu nu, hos decheta logieim zōarōnteim dōara ni,… Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
Romans 3:2“oracles”… prōtem men gar hoti pisteuila teim logieim tou theou.… every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
1 Peter 4:11ei tinos lalatō, hōs logieim theou; ei tinos diakonatō, hōs ek …… should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he …