King James Bible Dictionary

Unity of
Genesis 11:1; Genesis 11:6

Confusion of
Genesis 11:1-9; Genesis 10:5; Genesis 10:20; Genesis 10:31

Dialects of the Jews
Judges 12:6; Matthew 26:73

Many spoken at Jerusalem
John 19:20; Acts 2:8-11

Speaking in an unknown language in religious assemblies, forbidden
1 Corinthians 14:2-28

Gift of
Mark 16:17; Acts 2:7-8; Acts 10:46; Acts 19:6; 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 13:14

Mentioned in scripture:

Of Ashdod
Nehemiah 13:24

Chaldee
Daniel 1:4

Egyptian
Acts 2:10; Psalms 114:1

Greek
Luke 23:38; Acts 21:37

Latin
Luke 23:38; John 19:20

Of Lycaonia
Acts 14:11

Of Parthia and other lands
Acts 2:9-11

Of Syria
2 Kings 18:26; Ezra 4:7; Daniel 2:4

[TONGUES, CONFUSION OF, CONFUSION OF]

LAN'GUAGE, noun [Latin lingua, the tongue, and speech.]

1. Human speech; the expression of ideas by words or significant articulate sounds, for the communication of thoughts. language consists in the oral utterance of sounds, which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are represented by letters, marks or characters which form words. Hence language consists also in

2. Words duly arranged in sentences, written, printed or engraved, and exhibited to the eye.

3. The speech or expression of ideas peculiar to a particular nation. Men had originally one and the same language but the tribes or families of men, since their dispersion, have distinct languages.

4. Style; manner of expression.

Others for language all their care express.

5. The inarticulate sounds by which irrational animals express their feelings and wants. Each species of animals has peculiar sounds, which are uttered instinctively, and are understood by its own species, and its own species only.

6. Any manner of expressing thoughts. Thus we speak of the language of the eye, a language very expressive and intelligible.

7. A nation, as distinguished by their speech. Daniel 3:29.

LAN'GUAGED, adjective Having a language; as many languaged nations.

LAN'GUAGE-MASTER, noun One whose profession is to teach languages.