

Sometimes simply "the word" with Jesus "the word of the Kingdom" ( Matthew 13:19 Mark 2:2 Acts 4:4,29,31, etc.). (8) A designation of the gospel of Christ:

(7) Cannot be broken, endureth forever ( 2 Kings 10:10 Psalms 119:89 Isaiah 40:8, etc.). Compare also the references to Creation by "the word of God" and its personifications see LOGOS incarnated in Jesus Christ ( John 1:14 1 John 1:1,2 Revelation 19:13, "His name is called, The Word of God," Ho Logos tou Theou).

Logos in Philo and Greek-Jewish philosophy meant both reason or thought and its utterance, "the whole contents of the divine world of thought resting in the Nous of God, synonymous with the inner life of God Himself and corresponding to the logos endiathetos of the human soul on the other hand, it is the externalizing of this as revelation corresponding to the logos prophorikos in which man's thought finds expression (Schultz). (5) As personified (in Apocrypha, The Wisdom of Solomon 18:15 Ecclesiasticus 1:5, the Revised Version margin "omitted by the best authorities"). (4) As creative, upholding, and preserving ( Psalms 33:6 compare Genesis 1:3 Psalms 147:15,18 Hebrews 1:3 11:3 2 Peter 3:5,7).

(3) As a promise and ground of hope ( Psalms 119:25,28,38, etc. (2) The word is often a commandment, sometimes equivalent to "the Law" ( Exodus 32:28 Numbers 20:24 Deuteronomy 6:6 Psalms 105:8 119:11,17 Isaiah 66:2, etc.). (b) as spoken forth by the prophet ( Exodus 4:30 34:1 2 Kings 7:1 Isaiah 1:10, etc.). (a) as the revelation to the patriarch, prophet, or inspired person ( Genesis 15:1 Exodus 20:1 Numbers 22:38, etc.) (1) We have the word of Yahweh (or God see below) Some of the chief applications of the terms may thus be exhibited: Rhema is a "word" in itself considered logos is a spoken word, with reference generally to that which is in the speaker's mind. The commonest term in the Old Testament for "word" is dabhar (also "matter" "thing") in the New Testament logos ("reason," "discourse," "speech") but also frequently rhema.
