Strong's Lexicon
G1258 — διάλεκτος
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G1258 |
|---|---|
| Word: | διάλεκτος |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | from G1256 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 6 |
| Transliteration: | dialektos |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | dee-al'-ek-tos |
| Meaning: | 1. a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect" |
| KJV Renderings: | language, tongue |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
διάλεκτος, διαλεκτου, ἡ (διαλέγω);
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: Act 1:19; Act 2:6; Act 2:8; Act 21:40; Act 22:2; Act 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).)
STRONGS NT 1258a: διαλιμπάνω [διαλιμπάνω (or διαλυμπάνω): imperfect διελιμπανον; to intermit, cease: κλαίων οὐ διελίμπανεν, Act 8:24 WH (rejected) marginal reading; cf. Winers Grammar, 345f (323f); Buttmann, 300 (257). (Tob 10:7; Galen in Hipp. Epid. 1, 3; cf. Bornem. on Acts, the passage cited; Veitch, under the word λιμπάνω.)]
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
διάλεκτος (language)
Acts 1:19
- KJV: And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem insomuch as that field is called their proper tongue Aceldama that is to say The field of blood
- GK: και γνωστόν εγένετο πάσι τοις κατοικούσιν Ιερουσαλήμ ώστε κληθήναι το χωρίον εκείνο τη ιδία διαλέκτω αυτών Ακελδαμά τουτ΄ χωρίον αίματος
Acts 2:6
- KJV: Now when this was noised abroad the multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language
- GK: γενομένης δε της φωνής ταύτης συνήλθε το πλήθος και συνεχύθη ότι ήκουον εις έκαστος τη ιδία διαλέκτω λαλούντων αυτών
Acts 2:8
- KJV: And how hear we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born
- GK: και πως ημείς ακούομεν έκαστος τη ιδία διαλέκτω ημών εν η εγεννήθημεν
Acts 21:40
- KJV: And when he had given him licence Paul stood on the stairs and beckoned with the hand unto the people And when there was made a great silence he spake unto in the Hebrew tongue saying
- GK: επιτρέψαντος δε αυτού ο Παύλος εστώς επί των αναβάθμων κατέσεισε τη χειρί τω λαώ πολλής δε σιγής γενομένης προσεφώνησε τη Εβραϊδι διαλέκτω λέγων
Acts 22:2
- KJV: And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them they kept the more silence and he saith
- GK: ακούσαντες δε ότι τη Εβραϊδι διαλέκτω προσεφώνει αυτοίς μάλλον παρέσχον ησυχίαν
Acts 26:14
- KJV: And when we were all fallen to the earth I heard a voice speaking unto me and saying in the Hebrew tongue Saul Saul why persecutest thou me hard for thee to kick against the pricks
- GK: πάντων δε καταπεσόντων ημών εις την γην ήκουσα φωνήν λαλούσαν προς με και λέγουσαν τη Εβραϊδι διαλέκτω Σαούλ Σαούλ τι με διώκεις σκληρόν σοι προς κέντρα λακτίζειν