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.
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 This term was familiar to the Jews and in their writings long before a
 Greek philosopher named Heraclitus 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.
 See Gill on "Joh 1:1".