διάλεκτος
diálektos · G1258 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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language
A verbal code, whether oral or written, as a basic means of communication
ExamplesActs 1:19 And it became known to all the residents of Jerusalem; as a result that field was called Hakeldama in their own language, that is, Field of Blood.)
Acts 2:6 And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together and they were bewildered, because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language.
Acts 2:8 “And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- Ἑβραΐςthe Hebraistic or Jewish language 3
- ἴδιοςone’s own 3
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γεννάωto beget, to be the father of, to give birth 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Language33.1
- Used of a distinct spoken tongue, as of the field called Hakeldama in the residents' own language in Acts 1:19, each person hearing the disciples speak in his own native language at Pentecost in Acts 2:6 and 2:8, and the crowd growing quieter on hearing Paul address them in the Hebrew dialect in Acts 21:40 and 22:2.
Word family 39 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon διαλεκτου, ἡ (διαλέγω); 1. "conversation, speech, discourse, language (Plato,…
1. "conversation, speech, discourse, language (Plato, Demosthenes, others).
2. from Polybius (cf. Aristotle, probl. 10, 38 τοῦ ἀνθρώπου μία φωνή, ἀλλά διαλεκτοι πολλαί) down, the tongue or language peculiar to any people: Acts 1:19; Acts 2:6, Acts 2:8; Acts 21:40; Acts 22:2; Acts 26:14. (Polybius 1, 80, 6; 3, 22, 3; 40, 6, 3f; μεθερμηνεύειν εἰς τήν Ἑλλήνων διάλεκτον, Diodorus 1, 37; πᾶσα μέν διάλεκτος, ἡ δ' Ἑλληνικῇ διαφερόντως ὀνομαατων πλουτει, Philo, vit. Moys. ii. § 7; (cf. Muller on Josephus, contra Apion 1, 22, 4 at the end).)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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