adjective
logios
Strong’sG3052
eloquent
stem logi-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.
* λόγιος, -ον
(< λόγος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3052 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlog'-ee-os
fluent, i.e. an orator
Fromfrom G3056;
King Jameseloquent.
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
(λόγος) of or belonging to λόγοι:
I versed in tales or stories (compare λόγος see), λόγιοι καὶ ἀοιδοί Refs 5th c.BC+; Αἰγυπτίων -ώτατοι Refs; so later, οἱ - ώτατοι τῶν ἀρχαίων συγγραφέων Refs 2nd c.BC+
I.2 generally, learned, erudite, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὁ λ. Ἀκεστῖνος, of a learned physician, Refs 3rd c.AD+; οἱ -ώτατοι Τυρρηνῶν, of the Tuscan haruspices, Refs 1st c.AD+; λογιώτατος as title, Refs 5th c.AD+; ὁ τῆς λ. μνήμης σχολαστικός Refs 6th c.AD+
II skilled in words, eloquent, τὸ μεγαλοπρεπὲς ὅπερ νῦν καὶ λόγιον ὀνομάζουσιν Refs 4th c.BC+ is said to have made Refs 4th c.BC+; epithet of Hermes, as the god of eloquence, Refs 2nd c.AD+; this sense is condemned by Refs 2nd c.AD+. adverb -ίως eloquently, Refs 1st c.AD+; ὡς ἐνῆν -ώτατα as nearly in words as possible, of the elephant, Refs
III oracular, Ἀπόλλωνος δῶμα λόγιον Refs
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | logios1×λόγιος | logias | logiem | logiois | logiais | logieim |
| object accusative | logion | logian | logioin | logiain | ||
| direct address vocative | logior | logiar | logioir | logiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | logiou | logiau | logieu | logioiu | logiaiu | logieiu |
| to, for dative | logio | logia | logie | logioi | logiai | 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
logi 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
logios“eloquent”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 18:24… Apollos onome, Alexandrevos te gene, andros logios, katantata eis Efesan, dunatos arōntos en …… came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.