λαλέω
to speak
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 61 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 31 times (10%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 22 times (7%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 21 times (7%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 20 times (7%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 19 times (6%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 18 times (6%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 17 times (6%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 16 times (5%)
+53 more forms (134 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 298 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 2 of 2 — showing verses 201–272 of 272 distinct verses where G2980 appears, across 23 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians 28 verses
- 1 Corinthians 14:11 λαλοῦντι λαλῶν pres act ptcp dat sg masc pres act ptcp nom sg masc If then I don't know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.
- 1 Corinthians 14:13 λαλῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.
- 1 Corinthians 14:18 λαλῶ pres act ind 1sg I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
- 1 Corinthians 14:19 λαλῆσαι aor act inf However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
- 1 Corinthians 14:21 λαλήσω fut act ind 1sg In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."
- 1 Corinthians 14:23 λαλῶσιν pres act subj 3pl If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?
- 1 Corinthians 14:27 λαλεῖ pres act ind 3sg If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
- 1 Corinthians 14:28 λαλείτω pres act impv 3sg But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.
- 1 Corinthians 14:29 λαλείτωσαν pres act impv 3pl Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
- 1 Corinthians 14:34 λαλεῖν pres act inf let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
- 1 Corinthians 14:35 λαλεῖν pres act inf If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.
- 1 Corinthians 14:39 λαλεῖν pres act inf Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't forbid speaking with other languages.
- 1 Corinthians 15:34 λαλῶ pres act ind 1sg Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
2 Corinthians 8 verses
- 2 Corinthians 2:17 λαλοῦμεν pres act ind 1pl For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 4:13 ἐλάλησα λαλοῦμεν aor act ind 1sg pres act ind 1pl But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, "I believed, and therefore I spoke." We also believe, and therefore also we speak;
- 2 Corinthians 7:14 ἐλαλήσαμεν aor act ind 1pl For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
- 2 Corinthians 11:17 λαλῶ λαλῶ pres act ind 1sg pres act ind 1sg That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
- 2 Corinthians 11:23 λαλῶ pres act ind 1sg Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
- 2 Corinthians 12:4 λαλῆσαι aor act inf how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
- 2 Corinthians 12:19 λαλοῦμεν pres act ind 1pl Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
- 2 Corinthians 13:3 λαλοῦντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.
Ephesians 3 verses
- Ephesians 4:25 λαλεῖτε pres act impv 2pl Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.
- Ephesians 5:19 λαλοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises in your heart to the Lord;
- Ephesians 6:20 λαλῆσαι aor act inf for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Philippians 1 verse
Colossians 2 verses
1 Thessalonians 4 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 1:8 λαλεῖν pres act inf For from you has sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so that we need not to say anything.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:2 λαλῆσαι aor act inf but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Gospel of God in much conflict.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:4 λαλοῦμεν pres act ind 1pl But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16 λαλῆσαι aor act inf forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
1 Timothy 1 verse
Titus 2 verses
Hebrews 15 verses
- Hebrews 1:1 λαλήσας ἐλάλησεν aor act ptcp nom sg masc aor act ind 3sg God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
- Hebrews 2:2 λαληθεὶς aor pass ptcp nom sg masc For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
- Hebrews 2:3 λαλεῖσθαι pres pass inf how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation-- which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
- Hebrews 2:5 λαλοῦμεν pres act ind 1pl For he didn't subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.
- Hebrews 3:5 λαληθησομένων fut pass ptcp gen pl neut Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
- Hebrews 4:8 ἐλάλει impf act ind 3sg For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
- Hebrews 5:5 λαλήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc So also Christ didn't glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."
- Hebrews 6:9 λαλοῦμεν pres act ind 1pl But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
- Hebrews 7:14 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
- Hebrews 9:19 λαληθείσης aor pass ptcp gen sg fem For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
- Hebrews 11:4 λαλεῖ pres act ind 3sg By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
- Hebrews 11:18 ἐλαλήθη aor pass ind 3sg even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"
- Hebrews 12:24 λαλοῦντι pres act ptcp dat sg masc to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
- Hebrews 12:25 λαλοῦντα pres act ptcp acc sg masc See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
- Hebrews 13:7 ἐλάλησαν aor act ind 3pl Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
James 3 verses
- James 1:19 λαλῆσαι aor act inf So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
- James 2:12 λαλεῖτε pres act impv 2pl So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
- James 5:10 ἐλάλησαν aor act ind 3pl Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
1 Peter 2 verses
- 1 Peter 3:10 λαλῆσαι aor act inf For, "He who would love life, And see good days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit.
- 1 Peter 4:11 λαλεῖ pres act ind 3sg If any man speaks, let it be as it were oracles of God. If any man serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
2 Peter 2 verses
- 2 Peter 1:21 ἐλάλησαν aor act ind 3pl For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
- 2 Peter 3:16 λαλῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
1 John 1 verse
2 John 1 verse
3 John 1 verse
Jude 2 verses
- Jude 1:15 ἐλάλησαν aor act ind 3pl to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
- Jude 1:16 λαλεῖ pres act ind 3sg These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
Revelation 11 verses
- Revelation 1:12 ἐλάλει impf act ind 3sg I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.
- Revelation 4:1 λαλούσης pres act ptcp gen sg fem After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this."
- Revelation 10:3 ἐλάλησαν aor act ind 3pl He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.
- Revelation 10:4 ἐλάλησαν ἐλάλησαν aor act ind 3pl aor act ind 3pl When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don't write them."
- Revelation 10:8 λαλοῦσαν pres act ptcp acc sg fem The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."
- Revelation 13:5 λαλοῦν pres act ptcp nom sg neut A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
- Revelation 13:11 ἐλάλει impf act ind 3sg I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
- Revelation 13:15 λαλήσῃ aor act subj 3sg It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn't worship the image of the beast to be killed.
- Revelation 17:1 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
- Revelation 21:9 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb's bride."
- Revelation 21:15 λαλῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, λαλεω (laléō) means “to speak.” The King James Version’s older “spake” has given way to “speak” in modern versions, as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 272 verses across 23 books, a common footprint. It first appears in Matthew 9:18. Ranging over 6 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2980 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 272
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 272 distinct verses.
- 23 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 23 of 27 New Testament books.
- #59
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 59 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 272 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 272 distinct verses.
- Gospels 122 verses · 45%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 91 verses · 33%
- Johannine 65 verses · 24%
- Pauline corpus 52 verses · 19%
- Hebrews 15 verses · 6%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 12 verses · 4%
- Revelation 11 verses · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Speak 62×, Spake 48×, He spake 14×
- American Standard Version: Speak 60×, Spake 43×, Speaketh 21×
- Berean Standard Bible: Speak 44×, Spoke 23×, Speaking 17×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Speak 56×, Speaking 47×, Spoke 25×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2980 across 305 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 62 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2980 across 308 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 52 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2980 across 290 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 90 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2980 across 332 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 53 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 6 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to utter a voice or emit a sound
- to use the tongue or the faculty of speech
- to utter articulate sounds
- to talk
- to utter, tell
- to use words in order to declare one's mind and disclose one's thoughts
Word origin
Origin: a prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb
A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk that is utter words : - preach say speak (after) talk tell utter. Compare G3004 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 63 distinct written forms G2980 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 3 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2980, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λαλεω appears 1,049 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 957 verses in 35 books.
- 1,049
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 957
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 35 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 35 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 12:4 λαλέω
- Exodus 4:10 λαλέω
- Leviticus 1:1 λαλέω
- Numbers 1:1 λαλέω
- Deuteronomy 1:1 λαλέω
- Joshua 10:12 λαλέω
- Judges 1:20 λαλέω
- Ruth 1:18 λαλέω
- 1 Samuel 1:13 λαλέω
- 2 Samuel 2:27 λαλέω
- 1 Kings 1:14 λαλέω
- 2 Kings 1:3 λαλέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2980) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 957. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 12:4 λαλέω So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
- Genesis 16:13 λαλέω She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"
- Genesis 17:3 λαλέω Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
- Genesis 17:22 λαλέω When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
- Genesis 17:23 λαλέω Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
- Genesis 18:19 λαλέω For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
- Genesis 18:27 λαλέω Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
- Genesis 18:29 λαλέω He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
- Genesis 18:30 λαλέω He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
- Genesis 18:31 λαλέω He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
- Genesis 18:32 λαλέω He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
- Genesis 18:33 λαλέω Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
- Genesis 19:14 λαλέω Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
- Genesis 19:21 λαλέω He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
- Genesis 20:8 λαλέω Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
- Genesis 21:1 λαλέω Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
- Genesis 21:2 λαλέω Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
- Genesis 23:8 λαλέω He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
- Genesis 23:16 λαλέω Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
- Genesis 24:7 λαλέω Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
- Genesis 24:15 λαλέω It happened, before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
- Genesis 24:30 λαλέω It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
- Genesis 24:33 λαλέω Food was set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on."
- Genesis 24:45 λαλέω Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
- Genesis 24:51 λαλέω Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."
- Genesis 27:5 λαλέω Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
- Genesis 27:6 λαλέω Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
- Genesis 27:19 λαλέω Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 28:15 λαλέω Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."
- Genesis 29:9 λαλέω While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.
- Genesis 31:24 λαλέω God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
- Genesis 31:29 λαλέω It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
- Genesis 32:20 λαλέω You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
- Genesis 34:3 λαλέω His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
- Genesis 34:6 λαλέω Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
- Genesis 34:8 λαλέω Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
- Genesis 34:13 λαλέω The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
- Genesis 34:20 λαλέω Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
- Genesis 35:13 λαλέω God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
- Genesis 35:14 λαλέω Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink-offering on it, and poured oil on it.
- Genesis 35:15 λαλέω Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."
- Genesis 37:4 λαλέω His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
- Genesis 39:10 λαλέω It happened that as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he didn't listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
- Genesis 39:17 λαλέω She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
- Genesis 39:19 λαλέω It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.
- Genesis 41:9 λαλέω Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.
- Genesis 41:17 λαλέω Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:
- Genesis 42:7 λαλέω Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
- Genesis 42:22 λαλέω Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
- Genesis 42:30 λαλέω "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2980) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
