Strong's Greek · G1258
διάλεκτος
diálektos
Definitiona (mode of) discourse, i.e. "dialect"
Derivationfrom G1256 (διαλέγομαι);
KJV usagelanguage, tongue
Occurrences6 in the KJV · 6 verses
διάλεκτος in Scripture
Acts 1:19
And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
Acts 2:6
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Acts 2:8
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Acts 21:40
And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
Acts 22:2
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
Acts 26:14
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.