spēch (אמרה, ‘imrāh, דּבר, dābhār, etc.; λόγος, lógos): “Speech,” the articulate utterance of thought, is the tranlation of various Hebrew terms which convey this idea of “saying” or “word”; so, in the New Testament, the term generally so rendered is logos, “word.” See LOGOS; WORD. Eulogía in Romans 16:18 is “fair speech”; laliá in Matthew 26:73; Mark 14:70 the King James Version; John 8:43 is simply “talk.” The Revised Version has “speech” for various other words in the King James Version, as “matters” (1 Samuel 16:18, margin “bussiness”), “communication” (Matthew 5:37; Ephesians 4:29), “words” (Luke 20:20; 1 Corinthians 14:9); “persuasiveness of speech” for “enticing words” (Colossians 2:4), etc.
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Author: International Std. Bible Encyclopedia
Keywords: Speech, Logos
Source: James Orr (editor), The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 5 volume set.
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