Dialektos means “language” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1258 — barad (“hail”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1258 διάλεκτος (dialektos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. dialektos (dee-al'-ek-tos) n. 1. a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect" [from G1256] It has 7 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include tongue and language. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
dialektos (dee-al'-ek-tos) n. 1. a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect" [from G1256] KJV: language, tongue Root(s): G1256
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1258. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
language
Usage: διά-λεκτος, -ου, ἡ (διαλέγομαι), [in LXX: Dan LXX 1:4 (לָשׁוֹן), Est.9:26 * ;] __1. conversation, discourse, speech (Plat., Dem., al.). __2. As in Polyb. and later writers, the language or dialect of a particular country or district: Act.1:19 2:6, 8 21:40 22:2 26:14.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render dialektos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1258 (διάλεκτος) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Therefore these days were called Purim, because of the lots (for in their language they are called Pur); because of the words of this letter, and because of all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1258.
Therefore these days were called Purim, because of the lots (for in their language they are called Pur); because of the words of this letter, and because of all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.
And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1258, grouped by book.
Dialektos (Strong's G1258) is a Greek word most simply glossed "language". dialektos (dee-al'-ek-tos) n. 1. a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect" [from G1256]
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G1258 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1258 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as tongue and language. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G1258, with linked reader references where each row is available.