1) pertaining to speech or speaking
 2) pertaining to the reason or logic
    2a) spiritual, pertaining to the soul
    2b) agreeable to reason, following reason, reasonable, logical

 1) a brief utterance, a divine oracle (doubtless because oracles
    were generally brief)
    1a) in the NT, the words or utterances of God
    1b) of the contents of the Mosaic law

 1) learned, a man of letters, skilled in literature and the arts,
    esp. versed in history and the antiquities
 2) skilled in speech, eloquent
 3) rational, wise

 1) a reckoning, computation
 2) a reasoning: such as is hostile to the Christian faith
 3) a judgment, decision: such as conscience passes

 1) to contend about words
 2) to wrangle about empty and trifling matters

 1) to contend about words
 2) to wrangle about empty and trifling matters

 1) of speech
    1a) a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea
    1b) what someone has said
        1b1) a word
        1b2) the sayings of God
        1b3) decree, mandate or order
        1b4) of the moral precepts given by God
        1b5) Old Testament prophecy given by the prophets
        1b6) what is declared, a thought, declaration, aphorism, a
             weighty saying, a dictum, a maxim
    1c) discourse
        1c1) the act of speaking, speech
        1c2) the faculty of speech, skill and practice in speaking
        1c3) a kind or style of speaking
        1c4) a continuous speaking discourse - instruction
    1d) doctrine, teaching
    1e) anything reported in speech; a narration, narrative
    1f) matter under discussion, thing spoken of, affair, a matter
        in dispute, case, suit at law
    1g) the thing spoken of or talked about; event, deed
 2) its use as respect to the MIND alone
    2a) reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating,
      reasoning, calculating
    2b) account, i.e. regard, consideration
    2c) account, i.e. reckoning, score
    2d) account, i.e. answer or explanation in reference to judgment
    2e) relation, i.e. with whom as judge we stand in relation
        2e1) reason would
    2f) reason, cause, ground
 3) In John, denotes the essential Word of God, Jesus Christ, the
    personal wisdom and power in union with God, his minister in
    creation and government of the universe, the cause of all the
    world's life both physical and ethical, which for the procurement
    of man's salvation put on human nature in the person of Jesus the
    Messiah, the second person in the Godhead, and shone forth
    conspicuously from His words and deeds.

 ++++
 A Greek philosopher named Heraclitus first used the term Logos around
 600 B.C. to designate the divine reason or plan which coordinates a
 changing universe. This word was well suited to John's purpose in
 John 1.

 1) the iron point or head of a spear
 2) a lance, spear (a shaft armed with iron)

 1) to reproach, rail at, revile, heap abuse upon

 1) railing, reviling

 1) a railer, reviler

 1) pestilence
 2) a pestilent fellow, pest, plague

 1) remaining, the rest
    1a) the rest of any number or class under consideration
    1b) with a certain distinction and contrast, the rest, who are not
        of a specific class or number
    1c) the rest of the things that remain

 1) remaining, the rest
    1a) hereafter, for the future, henceforth
    1b) at last, already
    1c) for the rest, besides, moreover

 1) hereafter, for the future, henceforth

 Luke or Lucus = "light-giving"
 1) a Gentile Christian, the companion of Paul in preaching the gospel
    and on his many journeys; he was a physician and author of the book
    of Luke and Acts in the NT

 Lucius = "light: bright: white"
 1) a man from Cyrene who was a prophet and a teacher of the church in
    Antioch (Acts 13:1), perhaps the same one as mentioned in Ro. 16:21

 1) bathing, bath, the act of bathing

 1) to bathe, wash
    1a) of a dead person
    1b) washing to cleanse blood out of wounds

 Lydda = "strife"
 1) a town is 9 miles (15 km) from Joppa, and is the first town on the
    northernmost of the two roads between that place and Jerusalem

 Lydia = "travail"
 1) a woman of Thyatira, a seller of purple, the first European convert
    of Paul, and afterward his hostess during his first stay at Philippi

 Lycaonia = "wolf land"
 1) a region in Asia Minor, situated between Pisidia, Cilicia,
    Cappadocia, Galatia and Phrygia, whose chief towns were Derbe,
    Lystra and Iconium

 1) in the speech or tongue of the Lycaonia

 Lycia = "wolfish"
 1) a mountainous region in Asia Minor, bounded by Pamphylia, Phrygia,
    Caria, and the Mediterranean Sea

 1) a wolf
 2) metaph. of cruel, greedy, rapacious, destructive men

 1) to affix a stigma to, to dishonour, spot, defile
 2) to treat shamefully or with injury, to ravage, devastate, ruin

 1) to make sorrowful
 2) to affect with sadness, cause grief, to throw into sorrow
 3) to grieve, offend
 4) to make one uneasy, cause him a scruple

 1) sorrow, pain, grief, annoyance, affliction
    1a) of persons mourning

 Lysanias = "that drives away sorrow"
 1) a tetrarch of Abilene (i.e. the district around Abila) in the
    thirteenth year of Tiberias (A.D. 29), at the time when Herod
    Antipas was tetrarch of Galilee and when Herod Philip was tetrarch
    of Ituraea and Trachonitis

 Lysias = "releaser"
 1) a tribune or chiliarch of the Roman cohort

 1) a loosing, setting free
    1a) of a prisoner
    1b) of the bond of marriage, divorce
 2) release, ransoming, deliverance
    2a) of liquidating a debt
 3) means or power of releasing or loosing

 1) to pay the taxes
 2) to return expenses
 3) to be useful, advantageous, it profits

 Lystra = "ransoming"
 1) a city in the eastern part of the great plain of Lycaonia

 1) the price for redeeming, ransom
    1a) paid for slaves, captives
    1b) for the ransom of life
 2) to liberate many from misery and the penalty of their sins

 1) to release on receipt of ransom
 2) to redeem, liberate by payment of ransom
    2a) to liberate
    2b) to cause to be released to one's self by payment of a ransom
    2c) to redeem
    2d) to deliver: from evils of every kind, internal and external

 1) a ransoming, redemption
 2) deliverance, esp. from the penalty of sin

 1) redeemer
 2) deliverer, liberator

 1) a (candlestick) lamp stand, candelabrum

 1) a lamp, candle, that is placed on a stand or candlestick

 To a lamp are likened an eye, i.e. which shows the body which way to
 move and turn; the prophecies of the OT, inasmuch as they afforded at
 least some knowledge relative to the glorious return of Jesus from
 heaven.

 1) to loose any person (or thing) tied or fastened
    1a) bandages of the feet, the shoes,
    1b) of a husband and wife joined together by the bond of matrimony
    1c) of a single man, whether he has already had a wife or has not
        yet married
 2) to loose one bound, i.e. to unbind, release from bonds, set free
    2a) of one bound up (swathed in bandages)
    2b) bound with chains (a prisoner), discharge from prison, let go
 3) to loosen, undo, dissolve, anything bound, tied, or compacted together
    3a) an assembly, i.e. to dismiss, break up
    3b) laws, as having a binding force, are likened to bonds
    3c) to annul, subvert
    3d) to do away with, to deprive of authority, whether by precept
        or act
    3e) to declare unlawful
    3f) to loose what is compacted or built together, to break up,
        demolish, destroy
    3g) to dissolve something coherent into parts, to destroy
    3h) metaph., to overthrow, to do away with

 Lois = "agreeable"
 1) the grandmother of Timothy

 Lot = "veil or covering"
 1) the son of Haran and nephew to Abraham

 Maath = "small"
 1) the son of Mattathias in the genealogy of Jesus Christ

 Magdala = "a tower"
 1) a place on the western shore of the Lake of Galilee, about 3 miles
    (5 km) south of Tiberias

 Magdalene = "a tower"
 1) a name given to Mary Magdalene, identifying her as from Magdala

 1) magic, magic arts, sorceries

 1) to be a magician, to practise magical arts

 1) a magus
    1a) the name given by the Babylonians (Chaldeans), Medes,
        Persians, and others, to the wise men, teachers, priests,
        physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams,
        augers, soothsayers, sorcerers etc.
    1b) the oriental wise men (astrologers) who, having discovered by
        the rising of a remarkable star that the Messiah had just been
        born, came to Jerusalem to worship him
    1c) a false prophet and sorcerer

 Magog = "overtopping: covering"
 1) a land north of Israel from which the King of Gog will come
    to attack Israel

 Madian or Midian = "contention: strife"
 1) a land near the Red Sea, and took its name from one of the sons of
    Abraham by Keturah