If you check any standard lexicon you’ll find that this word was simply understood as God’s creative “speech, reason, plan,” etc.

Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the OT. dabar: a single word, in the proper sense (LXX logos, rhema] 2 Kings 18.36; Job 2.13. Also “decree, plan, proposal 2Sam 17.6; 1 Kings 1.7.”

Liddel, Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon. Logos: word, speech, statement, discourse, refutation, account, explanation, and reason.

Anchor Bible, vol. 4, “Logos”: Logos is used 331 times in the NT and in most of the same ways in which it is used in the LXX and in Greek literature in general. It can mean a statement (Luke 20:20), an assertion (Matt. 5:12), a command (Luke 4:36), a report or story (Matt. 28:15), a proverb or saying (John 4:37), an oracle or prophecy (John 2:22), a speech (Matt. 15:12), or the matter under discussion (Mark 9:10).

In the OT

• Gen 15:1 The word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision.
• Zech 4:8 The word of the Lord came to me.

“This is a technical expression in the O.T. for a Divine revelation to a prophet.” Cambridge Bible/Colleges

“A phrase used, when connected with a vision, to denote a prophetic message.” Jamieson-Fausset

“This phrase, used so constantly afterwards to signify revelation, occurs here for the first time.” Ellicots’

It’s like saying:

• A vision came to me.
• A thought came to me.

Divine qualities, things “with God”:

• “With His arm; reward.” cp. Isa 40:10; 49:4; 53:11; 62.11;
• “With Wisdom, with Might.” Job 12:13a; cp. 12.16; Prov 8:12

The Logos in John 1.

• Grammatical gender has nothing to do with sexual gender, i.e., a person or not a person. The Greek for “paper” is masculine; for “child” neuter, etc.
• The “word with God” doesn’t mean 2 Persons: The Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament says that “any force of motion inherent in pros [towards, face to face] is overridden by the [static verb, was/is].” Köstenberger, p 27, f. 22.
• According to Dr. Colin Brown in The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, John never uses pros but para to describe one person alongside another person (Jn 1:39, 4:40, 14:17, 23, 25, 19:25). Ethan cites Acts 24:16 a conscious a person?!
• The word “pertains to” or belongs to God, i.e., in connection with God the Father! As a result, the phrase is never used to show God “with” another person:
  • Heb 2:17; 5:1; Rom 17:15 “things with God”; Acts 24:16 “a conscious with God”; Rom 5:1 “peace with God”; 2Cor 3:4; 1 John 3:21 “confidence with God”; 1Thess 1:8 “Faith with God.”

Acts 11.16, NET Bible. The word of the Lord is a technical expression in OT literature, often referring to a divine prophetic utterance (e.g., Gen 15:1, Isa 1:10, Jonah 1:1).

In the NT it occurs 15 times: 3 times as ῥῆμα τοῦ κυρίου (here and in Luke 22:61, 1 Pet 1:25) and 12 times as λόγος τοῦ κυρίου (Acts 8:25; 13:44, 48, 49; 15:35, 36; 16:32; 19:10, 20; 1 Thess 1:8, 4:15; 2 Thess 3:1). As in the OT, this phrase focuses on the prophetic nature and divine origin of what has been said.

The Bible reveals all the types of beings created by God: angels, humans and animals. So you have to create a previously unrevealed in scripture type of being called the word of the LORD, aka the word of God.

Hebrews 1:1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors by the prophets at different times and in different ways. 2 In these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son.

• NOTE some translations add “but” noting a clear contrast!