Language
διάλεκτοςStrong’s G1258dialektos
Appears in 6 verses of the New Testament
In short
Dialektos is the Greek word usually translated “language”. It appears in 6 verses of the New Testament.
“And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.”
Meaning
Usually translated “language”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- language 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 6
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Acts 2:6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
- Acts 2:8And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
- Acts 21:40And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
- Acts 22:2(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
- Acts 26:14And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Greek dictionary
διάλεκτος dialektos · language
διά-λεκτος, -ου, ἡ (διαλέγομαι), [in LXX: Dan LXX 1:4 (לָשׁוֹן), Est.9:26 * ;] 1. conversation, discourse, speech (Plat., Dem., al.). 2. As in Polyb. and later writers, the language or dialect of a particular country or district: Act.1:19 2:6, 8 21:40 22:2 26:14.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “language” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LAN'GUAGE, noun
[Latin lingua, the tongue, and speech.]
- Human speech; the expression of ideas by words or significant articulate sounds, for the communication of thoughts. language consists in the oral utterance of sounds, which usage has made the representatives of ideas.
- Words duly arranged in sentences, written, printed or engraved, and exhibited to the eye.
- The speech or expression of ideas peculiar to a particular nation.
- Style; manner of expression.
All definitions
- The inarticulate sounds by which irrational animals express their feelings and wants.
- Any manner of expressing thoughts.
- A nation, as distinguished by their speech. Daniel 3:29
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.