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λογικόςStrong’s G3050

logikos

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Logikos is the Greek word usually translated “reasonable”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
Romans 12:1 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “reasonable”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • reasonable 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Romans 1
  • 1 Peter 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

λογικός logikos · spiritual

λογικός, -ή, -όν (λόγος, reason) reasonable, rational: λατρεία, Rom.12:1; τὸ λ. (i.e. spiritual) γάλα (see Hort, in l; MM, xvi), 1Pe.2:2 (in support of AV, milk of the word, see ICC, in l).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “spiritual” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SPIRITUAL, adjective

  1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as a spiritual substance or being.
  2. Mental; intellectual; as spiritual armor.
  3. Not gross; refined from external things; not sensual; relative to mind only; as a spiritual and refined religion.
  4. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as the spiritual functions of the clergy; the lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
All definitions
  1. Pertaining to spirit or to the affections; pure; holy.
  2. Pertaining to the renewed nature of man; as spiritual life.
  3. Not fleshly; not material; as spiritual sacrifices. 1 Peter 2:5
  4. Pertaining to divine things; as spiritual songs. Ephesians 5:19

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.