λαλέω
to speak
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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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.
90 distinct verses where G2980 appears in the Aorist tense, across 17 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Matthew 10 verses
- Matthew 9:33 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!"
- Matthew 10:19 λαλήσητε λαλήσητε aor act subj 2pl aor act subj 2pl But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
- Matthew 12:46 λαλοῦντος λαλῆσαι pres act ptcp gen sg masc aor act inf While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
- Matthew 12:47 λαλῆσαι.] aor act inf One said to him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you."
- Matthew 13:3 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
- Matthew 13:33 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."
- Matthew 13:34 ἐλάλησεν ἐλάλει aor act ind 3sg impf act ind 3sg Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
- Matthew 14:27 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying "Cheer up! I AM! Don't be afraid."
- Matthew 23:1 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
- Matthew 28:18 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 6:50 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, "Cheer up! It is I! Don't be afraid."
- Mark 13:11 λαλήσητε λαλεῖτε λαλοῦντες aor act subj 2pl pres act impv 2pl pres act ptcp nom pl masc When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
- Mark 16:19 λαλῆσαι aor act inf So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
Luke 15 verses
- Luke 1:19 λαλῆσαι aor act inf The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.
- Luke 1:20 λαλῆσαι aor act inf Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."
- Luke 1:22 λαλῆσαι aor act inf When he came out, he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.
- Luke 1:55 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg As he spoke to our fathers, To Abraham and his seed forever."
- Luke 1:70 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg (As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
- Luke 2:17 λαληθέντος aor pass ptcp gen sg neut When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.
- Luke 2:18 λαληθέντων aor pass ptcp gen pl neut All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds.
- Luke 2:20 ἐλαλήθη aor pass ind 3sg The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.
- Luke 2:50 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.
- Luke 11:14 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.
- Luke 11:37 λαλῆσαι aor act inf Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.
- Luke 12:3 ἐλαλήσατε aor act ind 2pl Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.
- Luke 24:6 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg He isn't here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee,
- Luke 24:25 ἐλάλησαν aor act ind 3pl He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
- Luke 24:44 ἐλάλησα aor act ind 1sg He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
John 12 verses
- John 7:46 ἐλάλησεν λαλεῖ aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
- John 8:12 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
- John 8:20 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
- John 12:36 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
- John 12:41 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
- John 12:48 ἐλάλησα aor act ind 1sg He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
- John 12:49 ἐλάλησα λαλήσω aor act ind 1sg aor act subj 1sg For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
- John 15:22 ἐλάλησα aor act ind 1sg If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
- John 17:1 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
- John 18:20 λελάληκα ἐλάλησα perf act ind 1sg aor act ind 1sg Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
- John 18:21 ἐλάλησα aor act ind 1sg Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."
- John 18:23 ἐλάλησα aor act ind 1sg Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"
Acts 21 verses
- Acts 2:31 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
- Acts 3:21 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
- Acts 3:22 λαλήσῃ aor act subj 3sg For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
- Acts 3:24 ἐλάλησαν aor act ind 3pl Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
- Acts 7:6 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
- Acts 8:25 λαλήσαντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the Gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.
- Acts 8:26 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert."
- Acts 9:27 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
- Acts 13:42 λαληθῆναι aor pass inf So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
- Acts 13:46 λαληθῆναι aor pass inf Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
- Acts 14:1 λαλῆσαι aor act inf It happened in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
- Acts 14:25 λαλήσαντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
- Acts 16:6 λαλῆσαι aor act inf When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
- Acts 16:32 ἐλάλησαν aor act ind 3pl They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
- Acts 21:39 λαλῆσαι aor act inf But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people."
- Acts 23:7 λαλήσαντος aor act ptcp gen sg masc When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
- Acts 23:9 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"
- Acts 23:18 λαλῆσαί aor act inf So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you."
- Acts 26:22 ἐλάλησαν aor act ind 3pl Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
- Acts 28:21 ἐλάλησέν aor act ind 3sg They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
- Acts 28:25 ἐλάλησεν aor act ind 3sg When they didn't agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers,
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 3:1 λαλῆσαι aor act inf Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 14:6 λαλῶν λαλήσω pres act ptcp nom sg masc aor act subj 1sg But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
- 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.
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 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 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.
Ephesians 1 verse
Colossians 2 verses
1 Thessalonians 2 verses
- 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 2:16 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.
Hebrews 7 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 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 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 11:18 ἐλαλήθη aor pass ind 3sg even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"
- 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 2 verses
1 Peter 1 verse
2 Peter 1 verse
2 John 1 verse
Jude 1 verse
Revelation 5 verses
- 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 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."
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.
