"to discourse, argue, reason, Acts 17:2, 17; 24:12; to address, speak to, Heb. 12:5; to contend, dispute, Mk. 9:34; Jude 9"
Definition and meaning
to discourse, argue, reason, Acts 17:2, 17; 24:12; to address, speak to, Heb. 12:5; to contend, dispute, Mk. 9:34; Jude 9
In the original Greek the word is written: διαλέγομαι
Historical context
The Gospel of Mark moves urgently — the word "immediately" appears over 40 times. It was written for a Roman audience familiar with power and action. Jesus is portrayed as a man who acts, heals, and commands authority that the Roman world had never seen from a Jewish teacher.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of dialegomai (G1256) across the King James Bible.
But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
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Common questions
Strong's G1256 (dialegomai) is a Greek word that means: to discourse, argue, reason, Acts 17:2, 17; 24:12; to address, speak to, Heb. 12:5; to contend, dispute, Mk. 9:34; Jude 9 It appears 13 times in the King James Bible.
The word dialegomai (G1256) appears 13 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G1256 is dialegomai, a Greek word defined as: to discourse, argue, reason, Acts 17:2, 17; 24:12; to address, speak to, Heb. 12:5; to contend, dispute, Mk. 9:34; Jude 9. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
dialegomai is a Greek word found in the New Testament.