Word

Greek word - (logos G3056)

Quiz - Choose the answer that is closest to what you think WORD is.
A - Jesus
B - a message
C - a single word
D - the sacred writings of the Christian religions

Problem - Misleading, Outdated

KJV Example - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1).

Explanation

When you read John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God," do you get the idea that God had a message to tell mankind? Most people don't because word doesn't mean message anymore.

Today its most common meaning is a single word.

The Greek word for word, logos, rarely means a single word. Logos comes from the verb, lego, which means to say. Logos is something that is said, a message. It has a broad meaning, and so it can also mean many words, a word, a saying, an account, an answer, and a matter. Those are the ways that I translated logos in the Breakthrough Version and the Breakthrough KJV.

But in the King James Version, logos is translated 29 different ways. Yes, you read that correctly: 29 different ways. Here is a list of them all: word, saying, account, speech, matter, utterance, communication, thing, reason, work, cause, talk, reckon, question, fame, rumor, treatise, intent, tiding, speaker, mouth, exhortation, preaching, (not translated), concerning, shew, have to do, to say, and doctrine. This is excessively inconsistent. It is unneccessary.

Logos is something that is said. God has something to say to you. Look at His Son, what He said, and what He did. That is what God wants to tell you. That is why the traditional wording of the Bible calls Jesus the Word. He is God's message.

In the Bible, word can have many meanings, but usually it means message.

Modern Synonym - message

Bible Version Tally (how other versions translate this word) - word (47 of 50)

Breakthrough Version - "In the beginning, there was the Message, the Message was close to God, and the Message was God" (John 1:1).