conversation Summary and Overview

generally the goings out and in of social intercourse (Eph. 2:3; 4:22; R.V., "manner of life"); one's deportment or course of life. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of verbal communication from one to another (Ps. 50:23; Heb. 13:5). In Phil. 1:27 and 3:20, a different Greek word is used. It there means one's relations to a community as a citizen, i.e., citizenship.

CONVERSA'TION is never used in the A.V. in its ordinary sense, but always denotes "course of life," "conduct." Phil 3:20 reads "our conversation is in heaven," but the Greek is properly translated by "citizenship." What is now called "conversation " is expressed in the A.V. by "communication." 2 Kgs 9:11; Matt 5:37; Eph 4:29 etc.