Meaning of LOGOS

(gr.: "verb, living word").
A designation of the Lord Jesus employed by John in the preamble to his Gospel, and mentioned in Luke. 1:2.

This term, which appears constantly in the NT, and is translated "word, saying, discourse," is translated in the different revisions of the RV as "Word" in the passages to which it refers to the Lord Jesus Christ.

(a) his eternal existence: "In the beginning he was the Word"; “all things were made through him” (John 1:1, 3).

(b) his essential deity: "The Word was God."

(c) his own personality: "The Word was with God" (John 1:1).
As "Logos", the Lord Jesus is the substance and expression of the mind of God with respect to man; and the term covers what was on earth for man: life, light and love, cf. also Rev. 19:13.

The "logos" denotes that which is "intelligent and intelligible." The same term gr. (translated "the word") is used to express the Scriptures and proclaimed truth (Acts 16:6; 17:11; Gal. 6:6; Phil. 1:14; 1 Thes. 1:6; 1 Pet. 2:2, 8; 3:1; 2 Peter 3:7; 1 John 2:7; Rev. 3:8).