lovgo" lovgo", lovgou, oJ (levgw) (from Homer down), the Septuagint especially for rb;D;, also for rm,ao and hL;mi; properly, a collecting, collection (see levgw) -- and that, as well of those things which are put together in thought, as of those which, having been thought i. e. gathered together in the mind, are expressed in words. Accordingly, a twofold use of the term is to be distinguished: one which relates to speaking, and one which relates to thinking.I. As respects speech:1. a word, yet not in the grammatical sense (equivalent to vocabulum, the mere name of an object), but language, vox, i. e. a word which, uttered by the living voice, embodies a conception or idea; (hence, it differs from rJh'ma and e[po" (which see; cf. also lalevw, at the beginning)): ; ajpokriqh'nai lovgon, ; eijpei'n lovgw/, (Rec. lovgon (cf. ei\pon, 3 a. at the end)); ; lalh'sai pevnte, murivou", lovgou", ; didovnai lovgon eu[shmon, to utter a distinct word, intelligible speech, ; eijpei'n lovgon katav tivno", to speak a word against, to the injury of, one, ; also eij" tina, ; to drive out demons lovgw/, ; ejperwta'n tina ejn lovgoi" iJkanoi'", ; of the words of a conversation, ajntibavllein lovgou", .2. what someone has said; a saying; a. universally: (T omits); (cf, Buttmann, 302 (259) note); ; ; , (Tr marginal reading WH rJhvmato"); ; ,; ; ; ; ; ; ; oJ lovgo" ou|to", this (twofold) saying (of the people), , cf. 16; tovn aujtovn lovgon eijpwvn, ; (); pagideuvein tina ejn lovgw/, in a word or saying which they might elicit from him and turn into an accusation, ; ajgreuvein tina lovgw/, i. e. by propounding a question, ; plural, ; ,; with the genitive of the contents: oJ lovgo" ejpaggeliva", ; oJ lovgo" th'" oJrkomwsia", ; lovgo" paraklhvsew", ; oJ lovgo" th'" marturiva", ; oiJ lovgoi th'" profhteiva", (Tdf. tovn lovgon); f,10,18; oJ profhtikov" lovgo", the prophetic promise, collectively of the sum of the O. T. prophecies, particularly the Messianic, ; of the sayings and statements of teachers: oiJ lovgoi ou|toi, the sayings previously related, (here L Tr WH brackets touvtou"); ; ; oiJ lovgoi tivno", the words, commands, counsels, promises, etc., of any teacher, ; ; <<ref:BHS/GNT_Mar 8:38