λέγω
to say
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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”).
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).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
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.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
89 verses where G3004 appears in the Present tense in the Book of Acts. 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.
Acts
- Acts 1:3 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.
- Acts 1:6 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
- Acts 2:7 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans?
- Acts 2:12 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?"
- Acts 2:17 λέγει pres act ind 3sg 'It will be in the last days, says God, That I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
- Acts 2:25 λέγει pres act ind 3sg For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
- Acts 2:34 λέγει εἶπεν pres act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand,
- Acts 2:40 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"
- Acts 3:2 λεγομένην pres pass ptcp acc sg fem A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
- Acts 3:25 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'
- Acts 4:16 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.
- Acts 5:23 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"
- Acts 5:28 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc saying, "Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
- Acts 5:36 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
- Acts 5:38 λέγω pres act ind 1sg Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.
- Acts 6:9 λεγομένων pres pass ptcp gen pl masc But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
- Acts 6:11 λέγοντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."
- Acts 6:13 λέγοντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
- Acts 6:14 λέγοντος pres act ptcp gen sg masc For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."
- Acts 7:48 λέγει pres act ind 3sg However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
- Acts 7:49 λέγει pres act ind 3sg 'heaven is my throne, And the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'Or what is the place of my rest?
- Acts 7:59 λέγοντα pres act ptcp acc sg masc They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit!"
- Acts 8:6 λεγομένοις pres pass ptcp dat pl neut The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did.
- Acts 8:9 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
- Acts 8:10 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is that great power of God."
- Acts 8:19 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit."
- Acts 8:26 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc 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 8:34 εἶπεν λέγει aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?"
- Acts 9:4 λέγουσαν pres act ptcp acc sg fem He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
- Acts 9:36 λέγεται pres pass ind 3sg Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
- Acts 10:26 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up! I myself am also a man."
- Acts 10:28 λέγειν pres act inf He said to them, "You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn't call any man unholy or unclean.
- Acts 11:3 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"
- Acts 11:4 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,
- Acts 11:7 λεγούσης pres act ptcp gen sg fem I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!'
- Acts 11:18 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!"
- Acts 12:7 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his hands.
- Acts 12:8 εἶπεν λέγει aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak, and follow me."
- Acts 13:15 λέγοντες λέγετε pres act ptcp nom pl masc pres act impv 2pl After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."
- Acts 13:35 λέγει pres act ind 3sg Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'
- Acts 14:11 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"
- Acts 14:15 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;
- Acts 14:18 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
- Acts 15:5 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses."
- Acts 15:13 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me.
- Acts 15:17 λέγει pres act ind 3sg That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.
- Acts 16:9 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us."
- Acts 16:15 λέγουσα pres act ptcp nom sg fem When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
- Acts 16:17 λέγουσα pres act ptcp nom sg fem Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation!"
- Acts 16:28 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm yourself, for we are all here!"
- Acts 16:35 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."
- Acts 17:7 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"
- Acts 17:18 ἔλεγον λέγειν impf act ind 3pl pres act inf Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
- Acts 17:19 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?
- Acts 17:21 λέγειν pres act inf Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
- Acts 18:13 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."
- Acts 19:4 εἶπεν λέγων aor act ind 3sg pres act ptcp nom sg masc Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus."
- Acts 19:13 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."
- Acts 19:26 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.
- Acts 19:28 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
- Acts 20:23 λέγον pres act ptcp nom sg neut except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
- Acts 21:11 εἶπεν λέγει aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
- Acts 21:21 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.
- Acts 21:23 λέγομεν pres act ind 1pl Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.
- Acts 21:37 λέγει εἰπεῖν pres act ind 3sg aor act inf As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, "May I speak to you?" He said, "Do you know Greek?
- Acts 21:40 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,
- Acts 22:7 λεγούσης pres act ptcp gen sg fem I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'
- Acts 22:18 λέγοντά pres act ptcp acc sg masc and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'
- Acts 22:22 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
- Acts 22:26 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!"
- Acts 22:27 εἶπεν λέγε aor act ind 3sg pres act impv 2sg The commanding officer came and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" He said, "Yes."
- Acts 23:8 λέγουσιν pres act ind 3pl For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
- Acts 23:9 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc 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 23:12 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
- Acts 23:30 λέγειν pres act inf When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."
- Acts 24:2 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,
- Acts 24:10 λέγειν pres act inf When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, "Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,
- Acts 24:14 λέγουσιν pres act ind 3pl But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
- Acts 25:14 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;
- Acts 26:1 λέγειν pres act inf Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
- Acts 26:14 λέγουσαν pres act ptcp acc sg fem When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
- Acts 26:22 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc 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 26:31 λέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."
- Acts 27:10 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc and said to them, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."
- Acts 27:11 λεγομένοις pres pass ptcp dat pl neut But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.
- Acts 27:24 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'
- Acts 27:33 λέγων pres act ptcp nom sg masc While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
- Acts 28:24 λεγομένοις pres pass ptcp dat pl neut Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.
- Acts 28:26 λέγων εἰπόν pres act ptcp nom sg masc aor act impv 2sg saying, 'Go to this people, and say, In hearing, you will hear, But will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, But will in no way perceive.
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, λεγω (légō) means “to say.” The King James Version usually renders it “saying,” while modern versions prefer “i tell” (Berean Standard Bible) and “said” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 1,941 verses in 25 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:16. Catalogued under 6 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. 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 G3004 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 →
- 1,941
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1,941 distinct verses.
- 25 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 25 of 27 New Testament books.
- #7
- by frequency
- Top 10 most frequent Greek words (rank 7 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1,941 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 1,941 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1,468 verses · 76%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 649 verses · 33%
- Johannine 488 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 108 verses · 6%
- Revelation 94 verses · 5%
- Hebrews 37 verses · 2%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 24 verses · 1%
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: Saying 384×, Saith 199×, I say 158×
- American Standard Version: Saying 322×, Saith 207×, I say 143×
- Berean Standard Bible: I tell 142×, Said 123×, Saying 63×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Said 556×, Saying 410×, Says 225×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3004 across 1,349 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 58 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3004 across 1,274 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 97 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 5 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3004 across 993 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 108 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 179 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3004 across 2,448 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 104 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.
- affirm over, maintain
- to teach
- to exhort, advise, to command, direct
- to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say
- to call by name, to call, name
- to speak out, speak of, mention
Word origin
Origin: a root word
A primary verb; properly to lay forth that is (figuratively) relate (in words [usually of systematic or set discourse ; whereas G2036 and G5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while G4483 is properly to break silence merely and G2980 means an extended or random harangue]); by implication to mean : - ask bid boast call describe give out name put forth say (-ing on) shew speak tell utter.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 85 distinct written forms G3004 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; 25 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3004, 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 λεγω appears 5,715 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4,644 verses in 38 books.
- 5,715
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4,644
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:3 εἶπον
- Exodus 1:9 εἶπον
- Leviticus 1:1 λέγω
- Numbers 1:1 λέγω
- Deuteronomy 1:5 λέγω
- Joshua 1:1 εἶπον
- Judges 1:1 λέγω
- Ruth 1:8 εἶπον
- 1 Samuel 1:8 εἶπον
- 2 Samuel 1:3 εἶπον
- 1 Kings 1:2 εἶπον
- 2 Kings 1:2 εἶπον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3004) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 4,644. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:3 εἶπον God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
- Genesis 1:6 εἶπον God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
- Genesis 1:9 εἶπον God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:11 εἶπον God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:14 εἶπον God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
- Genesis 1:20 εἶπον God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
- Genesis 1:22 λέγω God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
- Genesis 1:24 εἶπον God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:26 εἶπον God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Genesis 1:28 λέγω God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
- Genesis 1:29 εἶπον God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 2:16 λέγω Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
- Genesis 2:18 εἶπον Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 2:23 εἶπον The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
- Genesis 3:1 εἶπον Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:2 εἶπον The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
- Genesis 3:3 εἶπον but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
- Genesis 3:4 εἶπον The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
- Genesis 3:9 εἶπον Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
- Genesis 3:10 εἶπον The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
- Genesis 3:11 εἶπον God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:12 εἶπον The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:13 εἶπον Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:14 εἶπον Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:16 εἶπον To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
- Genesis 3:17 εἶπον To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:22 εἶπον Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 4:1 εἶπον The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."
- Genesis 4:6 εἶπον Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
- Genesis 4:8 εἶπον Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
- Genesis 4:9 εἶπον Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
- Genesis 4:10 εἶπον Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
- Genesis 4:13 εἶπον Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.
- Genesis 4:15 εἶπον Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
- Genesis 4:23 εἶπον Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me.
- Genesis 4:25 λέγω Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
- Genesis 5:29 λέγω and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
- Genesis 6:3 εἶπον Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
- Genesis 6:7 εἶπον Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
- Genesis 6:13 εἶπον God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 7:1 εἶπον Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Genesis 8:15 εἶπονλέγω God spoke to Noah, saying,
- Genesis 8:21 εἶπον Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 9:1 εἶπον God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
- Genesis 9:8 εἶπονλέγω God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
- Genesis 9:12 εἶπον God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Genesis 9:17 εἶπον God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
- Genesis 9:25 εἶπον He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."
- Genesis 9:26 εἶπον He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant.
- Genesis 10:9 εἶπον He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3004) 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.
