λέγω
to say
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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.
194 verses where G3004 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of John. 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.
John
- John 1:15 λέγων εἶπον pres act ptcp nom sg masc aor act ind 1sg John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"
- John 1:22 εἶπαν λέγεις aor act ind 3pl pres act ind 2sg They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
- John 1:23 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."
- John 1:25 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
- John 1:30 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'
- John 1:33 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'
- John 1:39 εἶπαν λέγεται aor act ind 3pl pres pass ind 3sg He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
- John 1:43 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."
- John 1:47 εἶπεν λέγει aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"
- John 1:49 λέγει εἶπεν pres act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"
- John 1:51 εἶπεν εἶπόν aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 1sg He said to him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."
- John 2:16 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
- John 2:18 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
- John 2:19 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
- John 2:20 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"
- John 2:22 ἔλεγεν εἶπεν impf act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
- John 3:2 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
- John 3:3 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg Jesus answered him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."
- John 3:7 εἶπόν aor act ind 1sg Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'
- John 3:9 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"
- John 3:10 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?
- John 3:12 εἶπον εἴπω aor act ind 1sg aor act subj 1sg If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
- John 3:26 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
- John 3:27 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
- John 3:28 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'
- John 4:10 εἶπεν λέγων aor act ind 3sg pres act ptcp nom sg masc Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
- John 4:13 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
- John 4:17 εἶπεν λέγει εἶπες aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg aor act ind 2sg The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'
- John 4:27 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"
- John 4:29 εἶπέν aor act ind 3sg "Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"
- John 4:32 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."
- John 4:39 εἶπέν aor act ind 3sg From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."
- John 4:48 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."
- John 4:50 λέγει εἶπεν pres act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
- John 4:52 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him."
- John 4:53 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.
- John 5:11 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"
- John 5:12 εἰπών aor act ptcp nom sg masc Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"
- John 5:14 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."
- John 5:15 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
- John 6:10 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
- John 6:25 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"
- John 6:26 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.
- John 6:28 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"
- John 6:29 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
- John 6:30 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?
- John 6:32 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
- John 6:34 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
- John 6:35 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
- John 6:36 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe.
- John 6:41 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."
- John 6:43 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves.
- John 6:53 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.
- John 6:59 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
- John 6:60 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
- John 6:61 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?
- John 6:67 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"
- John 7:3 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
- John 7:9 εἰπὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
- John 7:16 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
- John 7:21 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.
- John 7:33 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
- John 7:35 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
- John 7:36 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?'"
- John 7:38 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
- John 7:39 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
- John 7:42 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
- John 7:45 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
- John 7:52 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."
- John 8:7 εἶπε aor act ind 3sg But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."
- John 8:10 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"
- John 8:11 εἶπεν εἶπε aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
- John 8:13 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
- John 8:14 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.
- John 8:21 Εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."
- John 8:24 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
- John 8:25 ἔλεγον εἶπεν impf act ind 3pl aor act ind 3sg They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
- John 8:28 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
- John 8:39 εἶπαν λέγει aor act ind 3pl pres act ind 3sg They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
- John 8:41 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
- John 8:42 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
- John 8:48 εἶπαν λέγομεν aor act ind 3pl pres act ind 1pl Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
- John 8:52 εἶπαν λέγεις aor act ind 3pl pres act ind 2sg Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'
- John 8:55 εἴπω aor act subj 1sg You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
- John 8:57 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
- John 8:58 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."
- John 9:6 εἰπὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,
- John 9:7 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
- John 9:11 λεγόμενος εἶπέν pres pass ptcp nom sg masc aor act ind 3sg He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."
- John 9:12 εἶπαν λέγει aor act ind 3pl pres act ind 3sg Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don't know."
- John 9:15 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."
- John 9:17 λέγουσιν λέγεις εἶπεν pres act ind 3pl pres act ind 2sg aor act ind 3sg Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."
- John 9:20 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
- John 9:22 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
- John 9:23 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."
- John 9:24 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."
- John 9:26 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
- John 9:27 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to become his disciples, do you?"
- John 9:28 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
- John 9:30 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
- John 9:34 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out.
- John 9:35 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
- John 9:36 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"
- John 9:37 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you."
- John 9:39 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."
- John 9:40 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
- John 9:41 εἶπεν λέγετε aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 2pl Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
- John 10:6 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
- John 10:7 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most assuredly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.
- John 10:24 ἔλεγον εἰπὸν impf act ind 3pl aor act impv 2sg The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
- John 10:25 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.
- John 10:34 εἶπα aor act ind 1sg Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'
- John 10:35 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
- John 10:36 λέγετε εἶπον pres act ind 2pl aor act ind 1sg Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'
- John 10:41 ἔλεγον εἶπεν impf act ind 3pl aor act ind 3sg Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."
- John 11:4 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."
- John 11:11 εἶπεν λέγει aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."
- John 11:12 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
- John 11:14 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.
- John 11:16 εἶπεν λεγόμενος aor act ind 3sg pres pass ptcp nom sg masc Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."
- John 11:21 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.
- John 11:25 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live.
- John 11:28 εἰποῦσα εἰποῦσα aor act ptcp nom sg fem aor act ptcp nom sg fem When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."
- John 11:34 εἶπεν λέγουσιν aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3pl and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."
- John 11:37 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"
- John 11:40 λέγει εἶπόν pres act ind 3sg aor act ind 1sg Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"
- John 11:41 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
- John 11:42 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."
- John 11:43 εἰπὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
- John 11:46 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
- John 11:49 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
- John 11:51 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
- John 12:6 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
- John 12:7 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
- John 12:19 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
- John 12:27 εἴπω aor act subj 1sg "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
- John 12:30 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.
- John 12:35 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
- John 12:38 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
- John 12:39 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,
- John 12:41 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
- John 12:44 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
- John 12:49 εἴπω 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 13:7 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, but you will understand later."
- John 13:11 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You are not all clean."
- John 13:12 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?
- John 13:21 εἰπὼν εἶπεν λέγω aor act ptcp nom sg masc aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, "Most assuredly I tell you that one of you will betray me."
- John 13:24 λέγει εἰπὲ λέγει pres act ind 3sg aor act impv 2sg pres act ind 3sg Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks."
- John 13:28 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
- John 13:33 εἶπον λέγω aor act ind 1sg pres act ind 1sg Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.
- John 14:2 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg In my Father's house are many mansions. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
- John 14:23 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
- John 14:26 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
- John 14:28 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
- John 15:20 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
- John 16:4 εἶπον εἶπον aor act ind 1sg aor act ind 1sg But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
- John 16:15 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.
- John 16:17 Εἶπον λέγει aor act ind 3pl pres act ind 3sg Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"
- John 16:19 εἶπεν εἶπον aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 1sg Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'
- John 17:1 εἶπεν 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 18:1 εἰπὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
- John 18:6 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg When therefore he said to them, "I AM," they went backward, and fell to the ground.
- John 18:7 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl Again therefore he asked them, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."
- John 18:8 εἶπον aor act ind 1sg Jesus answered, "I told you that I AM. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,"
- John 18:9 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none."
- John 18:11 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"
- John 18:16 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
- John 18:21 εἶπον 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 18:22 εἰπόντος εἰπών aor act ptcp gen sg masc aor act ptcp nom sg masc When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"
- John 18:25 εἶπον εἶπεν aor act ind 3pl aor act ind 3sg Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."
- John 18:30 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."
- John 18:31 εἶπεν εἶπον aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 3pl Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"
- John 18:32 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
- John 18:33 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
- John 18:34 λέγεις εἶπόν pres act ind 2sg aor act ind 3pl Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"
- John 18:37 εἶπεν λέγεις aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 2sg Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
- John 18:38 λέγει εἰπὼν λέγει pres act ind 3sg aor act ptcp nom sg masc pres act ind 3sg Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
- John 19:21 ἔλεγον εἶπεν impf act ind 3pl aor act ind 3sg The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"
- John 19:24 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.
- John 19:30 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
- John 20:14 εἰποῦσα aor act ptcp nom sg fem When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn't know that it was Jesus.
- John 20:15 λέγει λέγει εἰπέ pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg aor act impv 2sg Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."
- John 20:17 λέγει εἰπὲ pres act ind 3sg aor act impv 2sg Jesus said to her, "Don't touch me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
- John 20:18 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
- John 20:20 εἰπὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
- John 20:21 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."
- John 20:22 εἰπὼν λέγει aor act ptcp nom sg masc pres act ind 3sg When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!
- John 20:25 ἔλεγον εἶπεν impf act ind 3pl aor act ind 3sg The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
- John 20:26 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."
- John 20:28 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
- John 21:17 λέγει εἶπεν λέγει λέγει pres act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
- John 21:19 εἶπεν εἰπὼν λέγει aor act ind 3sg aor act ptcp nom sg masc pres act ind 3sg Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me."
- John 21:20 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus sincerely loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus' breast at the supper and asked, "Lord, who is going to betray You?"
- John 21:23 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"
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.