Diálektos — G1258

Definition

feminine noun

a (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect"

1. "conversation, speech, discourse, language
2. from Polybius down, the tongue or language peculiar to any people

Usually translated as

tongue, language

Origin

from G1256

• dialégomai (G1256)

Occurrences

Diálektos occurs 6 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Acts (6)

• Acts 1:19 — And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue (διαλέκτῳ), Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
• Acts 2:6 — Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language (διαλέκτῳ).
• Acts 2:8 — And how hear we every man in our own tongue (διαλέκτῳ), wherein we were born?
• Acts 21:40 — 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 (διαλέκτῳ), saying,
• Acts 22:2 — (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue (διαλέκτῳ) to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
• Acts 26:14 — And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue (διαλέκτῳ), Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.