διά-λεκτος, -ου, ἡ (διαλέγομαι), [in LXX: Dan LXX 1:4 (לָשׁוֹן), Est.9:26 * ;] 1. conversation, discourse, speech (Plat., Dem., al.). 2. As in Polyb. and later writers, the language or dialect of a particular country or district: Act.1:19 2:6, 8 21:40 22:2 26:14.† (AS)
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G1258 — διάλεκτος
dialektos · language · Greek
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Acts 1:19 · διαλέκτῳAnd 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 · διαλέκτῳNow 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 · διαλέκτῳAnd how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?Acts 21:40 · διαλέκτῳAnd 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 · διαλέκτῳ(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)Acts 26:14 · διαλέκτῳ·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.