spech ('imrah, dabhar, etc.; logos): "Speech," the articulate utterance of thought, is the tranlation of various Hebrew terms which convey this idea of "saying" or "word"; so, in the New Testament, the term generally so rendered is logos, "word." SeeLOGOS;WORD. Eulogia inRo 16:18is "fair speech"; lalia inMt 26:73;Mr 14:70the King James Version;Joh 8:43is simply "talk." the Revised Version (British and American) has "speech" for various other words in the King James Version, as "matters" (1Sa 16:18, margin "bussiness"), "communication" (Mt 5:37;Eph 4:29), "words" (Lu 20:20;1Co 14:9); "persuasiveness of speech" for "enticing words" (Col 2:4), etc.
W. L. Walker