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Strong's #1258 - διάλεκτος
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- conversation, speech, discourse, language
- the tongue or language peculiar to any people
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διάλεκτ-ος, ἡ,
I
1. discourse, conversation, Hp. Art. 30; θεοῖς πρὸς ἀνθρώπους Pl. Smp. 203a; discussion, debate, argument, Id. Tht. 146b; opp. ἔρις, Id. R. 454a.
2. common language, talk, δ. ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους Arist. Po. 1449a26; ἡ εἰωθυῖα δ. Id. Rh. 1404b24.
II
1. speech, language, Ar. Fr. 685; καινὴν δ. λαλῶν Antiph. 171; δ. ἀμνίου, opp. τὰ ἔνδον δράκοντος, Hermipp. 3; articulate speech, language, opp. φωνή, Arist. HA 535a28; τοῦ ἀνθρώπου μία φωνή, ἀλλὰ διάλεκτοι πολλαί Id. Pr. 895a6; but also, spoken, opp. written language, D.H. Comp. 11.
2. the language of a country, Plb. 1.80.6, D.S. 5.6, etc.: esp. dialect, as Ionic, Attic, etc., Diog.Bab.Stoic. 3.213, D.H. Comp. 3, S.E. M. 1.59, Hdn.Gr. 2.932; also, local word or expression, Plu. Alex. 31.
III
1. way of speaking, accent, D. 37.55.
2. pl., modes of expression, Epicur Ephesians 1 p.24U. style, πανηγυρική, ποιητικὴ δ., D.H. Comp. 23, 21: esp. poetical diction, Phld. Po. 2 Fr. 33, al. of musical instruments, quality, 'idiom', Arist. de An. 420b8.
διάλεκτος, διαλεκτου, ἡ (διαλέγω);
1. "conversation, speech, discourse, language (Plato, Demosthenes, others).
2. from Polybius (cf. Aristotle, probl. 10, 38 τοῦ ἀνθρώπου μία φωνή, ἀλλά διαλεκτοι πολλαί) down, the tongue or language peculiar to any people: Acts 1:19; Acts 2:6, 8; Acts 21:40; Acts 22:2; Acts 26:14. (Polybius 1, 80, 6; 3, 22, 3; 40, 6, 3f; μεθερμηνεύειν εἰς τήν Ἑλλήνων διάλεκτον, Diodorus 1, 37; πᾶσα μέν διάλεκτος, ἡ δ' Ἑλληνικῇ διαφερόντως ὀνομαατων πλουτει, Philo, vit. Moys. ii. § 7; (cf. Muller on Josephus, contra Apion 1, 22, 4 at the end).)
STRONGS NT 1258a: διαλιμπάνω [διαλιμπάνω (or διαλυμπάνω): imperfect διελιμπανον; to intermit, cease: κλαίων οὐ διελίμπανεν, Acts 8:24 WH (rejected) marginal reading; cf. Winers Grammar, 345f (323f); Buttmann, 300 (257). (Tobit 10:7; Galen in Hipp. Epid. 1, 3; cf. Bornem. on Acts, the passage cited; Veitch, under the word λιμπάνω.)
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διά -λεκτος , -ου , ἡ
(< διαλέγομαι ),
[in LXX: Da LXX Daniel 1:4 (H3956), Esther 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: Acts 1:19; Acts 2:6; Acts 2:8; Acts 21:40; Acts 22:2; Acts 26:14.†
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P Leid W iv. 29 (ii/iiiA.D.) δὲ ὁ (sic!) ἐπὶ τῆς βάρεως φανεὶς. . . ἰδίᾳ διαλέκτῳ ἀσπάζεταί σε, λέγων κτλ.—the speaker is apparently a being with a dog’s head, who would naturally use a special dialect. Thumb, Gr. Dial. p. 22 f., has an important discussion of the precise differentia of διάλεκτος, which from ";Redeweise"; came to be ";Sprache"; in general (as Acts 22:2), and was finally specialized to ";lokale Spracheigentümlichkeit"; : see his quotations.
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