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 edicts, answers, decisions of men, regarded as individual word-forms or documents.

In the plural dibre and logoi or logia alike mean a collection of documents, works or writings, i.e., a library. Sometimes this form is used in the sense of archives or library i.e. the separate documents (1 Ch. 4:22) "sentences" (BDB 182-3) psalms (2 Ch. 29:50) or other separate works, whether by one or various writers, looked at as separate compositions. At other times it means a book containing these collected works whether by one or various authors. The words of Agur (Prov. 30:11) or Jeremiah (Jer. 1:1) etc. on the one hand are "collected works" of a single author. On the other hand the "Words of the Kings of Israel" (2 Ch. 33:18) whether this refers to the archives themselves or to the "Book of the Kings of Israel" (2 Ch. 20:34) written up from these, certainly contained