λόγιον
oracle
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 3 times (75%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3051 appears — 4 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 1 verse
Romans 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
λογιον — transliterated lógion — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “oracle.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (25% of all occurrences). Debuting at Acts 7:38, it then recurs through the corpus. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3051 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 25%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 25%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 25%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Oracles 4×
- American Standard Version: Oracles 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: One conveying the words of god 1×, Very words 1×, Word 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Words 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3051 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3051 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3051 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3051 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a brief utterance, a divine oracle (doubtless because oracles were generally brief)
Word origin
Derived from λογιος (lógios) (G3052) — learned.
Neuter of G3052 ; an utterance (of God): - oracle.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3051 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λόγια lógia | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Acts 7:38 | 3 |
| λογίων logíōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Hebrews 5:12 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λογιον appears 34 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 32 verses in 4 books.
- 34
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 32
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 24:4 λόγιον
- Deuteronomy 33:9 λόγιον
- Psalms 11:7 λόγιον
- Isaiah 5:24 λόγιον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3051) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 24:4 λόγιον He says, who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
- Numbers 24:16 λόγιον He says, who hears the words of God, Knows the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
- Deuteronomy 33:9 λόγιον Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor knew he his own children: For they have observed your word, Keep your covenant.
- Psalms 11:7 λόγιον For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
- Psalms 17:31 λόγιον
- Psalms 18:15 λόγιον Then the channels of waters appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
- Psalms 104:19 λόγιον He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
- Psalms 106:11 λόγιον The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
- Psalms 118:11 λόγιον They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I indeed cut them off.
- Psalms 118:38 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:41 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:50 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:58 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:67 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:76 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:82 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:103 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:116 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:123 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:133 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:140 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:148 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:158 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:162 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:169 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:170 λόγιον
- Psalms 118:172 λόγιον
- Psalms 137:2 λόγιον On the willows in the midst of it, We hung up our harps.
- Psalms 147:4 λόγιον He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.
- Isaiah 5:24 λόγιον Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 28:13 λόγιον Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
- Isaiah 30:27 λόγιον Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3051) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
