logion
/ˈloʊ.d͡ʒi.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A traditional saying of a religious leader.
noun
A saying that is attributed to Jesus in ancient or reconstructed texts that was (originally) handed down without narrative context.
Example Sentences
- "It is clear from Origen's wording that he is not referring to a logion of the original Montanist leaders, but to a statement made by later adherents of the New Prophecy. […] The logion is probably authentic."
- "Influenced by scholarship on the sayings of Jesus and the redaction of the Gospels, [John] Wansbrough assumes that the Qu'rān was edited and constructed from a plethora of short texts that he terms "prophetic logia." These logia draw on monotheistic imagery and are related to forms familiar from the literature of prophetical expression. […] The goal of the critic is to identify these logia by examining the canonical text in which they have been edited and spliced together"
- "The Q materials are often thought to have almost exclusively consisted of logia."
- "The Gospels are evidently independent in their use of their source in the Logia of Matthew; but they all give the logion the same place in their Gospels."
- "It is in this context that the difficult logion in Matthew concerning the eye (vv. 22–23) is to be understood."
- "The central key to unraveling the perplexities of the Thomas gospel is contained basically in the first three logia. According to logion 1, which is actually a statement by the apostle Thomas, not by Jesus, the one who finds the interpretation or meaning of Jesus' secret sayings will not taste of death."
Etymology
] From Ancient Greek λόγιον (lógion, “oracle”), from λόγος (lógos, “word; the word or wisdom of God”) (from λέγω (légō, “I say”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”)) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming diminutive nouns).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: λόγιον, *leǵ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈloʊ.d͡ʒi.ən/
- British English: /ˈləʊ.ɡɪ.ən/