λόγ-ιον G3051
Oracle; a divine utterance or saying, especially the collected revelations of God entrusted to Israel.
Logion (diminutive of logos) denotes a divine saying or oracle -- a word that carries the weight of God's own speech. In the NT it always appears in the plural (logia), referring to the body of God's revelations. Stephen speaks of Moses receiving 'living oracles' at Sinai (Acts 7:38); Paul affirms that the Jews were entrusted with 'the oracles of God' (Rom 3:2). The author of Hebrews chides readers who still need instruction in the basic oracles (Heb 5:12), and Peter urges that anyone who speaks should do so as one delivering God's oracles (1 Pet 4:11).
Senses
1. sense 1 — A divine utterance or collected body of God's spoken revelations. In Acts 7:38 Stephen describes Moses receiving 'living oracles' on Sinai -- words pulsing with divine authority. Rom 3:2 names these oracles as Israel's great privilege. Heb 5:12 treats them as foundational teaching, and 1 Pet 4:11 sets them as the standard for Christian speech. French 'oracle' and Spanish 'oráculos' preserve the sacred-pronouncement sense, while German 'Gaben' (gifts) captures the entrusted-treasure dimension. 4×
AR["أقوالِ", "أَقوالَ", "أَقْوَالًا", "أَقْوَالِ"]·ben["বচনের", "বাণী", "বাণীসমূহ"]·DE["Gaben", "λόγια"]·EN["oracles"]·FR["Gaben", "oracle"]·heb["דִּבְרֵי"]·HI["वचन", "वचनों-के"]·ID["firman", "firman-firman", "sabda-sabda"]·IT["logia", "logiōn", "oracolo"]·jav["pangandika", "pangandikan", "sabda"]·KO["말씀들", "말씀들-을", "말씀들의"]·PT["oráculos"]·RU["слов", "слова"]·ES["oráculos", "palabras"]·SW["maneno"]·TR["sözler", "sözleri", "sözlerinin"]·urd["کلام"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
λόγ-ιον, τό, 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+