International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Speech

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Speech


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spēch (אמרה, 'imrāh, דּבר, dābhār, etc.; λόγος, lógos): “Speech,” the articulate utterance of thought, is the tranlation of various Hebrew terms which convey this idea of “saying” or “word”; so, in the New Testament, the term generally so rendered is logos, “word.” See LOGOS; WORD. Eulogı́a in is “fair speech”; laliá in ; the King James Version; is simply “talk.” the Revised Version (British and American) has “speech” for various other words in the King James Version, as “matters” (, margin “bussiness”), “communication” (; ), “words” (; ); “persuasiveness of speech” for “enticing words” (), etc.