dialektos is the language spoken or heard as a person's own, including Hebrew language speech.

The occurrences identify a language in relation to its speakers or hearers: people hear speech in their own language in Acts 2:6 and Acts 2:8, while Acts 21:40, Acts 22:2, and Acts 26:14 specify speech or a voice in the Hebrew language. Acts 1:19 likewise identifies the language in which a place-name was called.

1. A language identified with speakers or hearers · dominant

   In Acts 2:6 and Acts 2:8, the dative singular feminine form occurs where each hearer hears speech in his own language. In Acts 1:19, the APB renders the naming clause as a place being called "in their own language"; Acts 21:40, Acts 22:2, and Acts 26:14 identify speech or a voice as being "in the Hebrew language."

   Acts 2:6Acts 2:8Acts 1:19Acts 21:40Acts 22:2Acts 26:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as "language" in Acts 1:19, Acts 2:6, Acts 21:40, Acts 22:2, and Acts 26:14, and as "native language" in Acts 2:8. These renderings reflect whole clauses rather than a word-by-word alignment.