A Word Study on the Word Word

Today the Lord is leading me to do something different. I have no idea why this is needed by someone, but the Holy Spirit is adamant that I do a word study on the Greek word translated Word in the Gospel of Saint John.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And the Word was God.

This is the first verse of the Gospel of John. The Greek word John used to refer to Jesus before His birth is λόγος, which the translators translated as Word. But this is not the best rendering. The word comes from the old Attic language where it first referred to a commercial warehouse, then took on the meaning of the goods in any warehouse. In later Attic it came to denote a collection of objects or ideas, and in suffix form this is the meaning imparted to the word to which it appends. Finally in the Koine language, it takes on the meaning of the concept behind the word.

An interesting aside, the word agape first meant the public warehouse that stored the grain for emergency rations. It had become the habit of the rulers to throw open the doors of the warehouse when the new harvest is ready to come in so the old grain could be moved out by the needy and the new grain would have room to store it. The grain that was given was the logos of the agape. Today the logos is the center of the agape of the Father.

The Stoic philosophers used the word logos to refer to an impersonal force that permeates all of creation and holds all things together. When John used the word to refer to a human being, it really threw them off. They could easily adhere to the divinity of the logos, but could not believe the logos is a person.

In the Greek language there is a specific word to refer to the spoken word, rhema. There is also a word that refers to the written word, graphe. So the inclusion of logos into the Greek language fills a different niche. It refers to the meaning of the word, the concept or idea. And when it is used as John did in his Gospel, the word refers to the whole idea behind creation, the collection of all meaning.

So my conclusion is that Jesus is the whole idea behind the creation of God, centered in His selfless love. Think about it. The whole idea, the plan of creation, is Jesus Christ.

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