λέγω
to say
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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”).
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.
74 verses where G3004 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of Mark. 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.
Mark
- Mark 1:17 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men."
- Mark 1:44 λέγει εἴπῃς pres act ind 3sg aor act subj 2sg and said to him, "See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."
- Mark 2:9 εἰπεῖν εἰπεῖν aor act inf aor act inf Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'
- Mark 2:19 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast.
- Mark 3:9 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.
- Mark 4:39 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
- Mark 4:40 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?"
- Mark 5:33 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
- Mark 5:34 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease."
- Mark 5:43 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.
- Mark 6:22 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."
- Mark 6:24 εἶπεν εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
- Mark 6:37 εἶπεν λέγουσιν aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3pl But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"
- Mark 7:6 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
- Mark 7:10 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
- Mark 7:11 λέγετε εἴπῃ pres act ind 2pl aor act subj 3sg But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"'
- Mark 7:29 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."
- Mark 8:5 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven."
- Mark 8:28 εἶπαν λέγοντες aor act ind 3pl pres act ptcp nom pl masc They told him, "John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets."
- Mark 8:34 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Mark 9:18 εἶπα aor act ind 1sg and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."
- Mark 9:21 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood.
- Mark 9:23 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."
- Mark 9:29 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."
- Mark 9:36 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He took a little child, and set him in the midst of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,
- Mark 9:39 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.
- Mark 10:3 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
- Mark 10:4 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."
- Mark 10:5 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
- Mark 10:14 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
- Mark 10:18 εἶπεν λέγεις aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 2sg Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one-- God.
- Mark 10:21 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."
- Mark 10:36 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
- Mark 10:37 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."
- Mark 10:38 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
- Mark 10:39 εἶπαν εἶπεν aor act ind 3pl aor act ind 3sg They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
- Mark 10:49 εἶπεν λέγοντες aor act ind 3sg pres act ptcp nom pl masc Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"
- Mark 10:51 εἶπεν εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni, that I may see again."
- Mark 10:52 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
- Mark 11:3 εἴπῃ εἴπατε aor act subj 3sg aor act impv 2pl If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."
- Mark 11:6 εἶπαν εἶπεν aor act ind 3pl aor act ind 3sg They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.
- Mark 11:14 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it.
- Mark 11:23 λέγω εἴπῃ pres act ind 1sg aor act subj 3sg For most assuredly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.
- Mark 11:29 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
- Mark 11:31 λέγοντες εἴπωμεν pres act ptcp nom pl masc aor act subj 1pl They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
- Mark 11:32 εἴπωμεν aor act subj 1pl If we should say, 'From men'"--they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.
- Mark 12:7 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
- Mark 12:12 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
- Mark 12:15 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."
- Mark 12:16 λέγει εἶπαν pres act ind 3sg aor act ind 3pl They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar's."
- Mark 12:17 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." They marveled greatly at him.
- Mark 12:26 εἶπεν λέγων aor act ind 3sg pres act ptcp nom sg masc But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'
- Mark 12:32 εἶπεν εἶπες aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 2sg The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,
- Mark 12:34 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.
- Mark 12:36 εἶπεν εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.'
- Mark 12:43 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,
- Mark 13:2 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."
- Mark 13:4 εἰπὸν aor act impv 2sg "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?"
- Mark 13:21 εἴπῃ aor act subj 3sg Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'Look, there!' don't believe it.
- Mark 14:6 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
- Mark 14:14 εἴπατε λέγει aor act impv 2pl pres act ind 3sg and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
- Mark 14:16 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.
- Mark 14:18 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, one of you will betray me -- he who eats with me."
- Mark 14:20 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish.
- Mark 14:22 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."
- Mark 14:24 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.
- Mark 14:39 εἰπών aor act ptcp nom sg masc Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.
- Mark 14:48 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?
- Mark 14:62 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said, "I AM. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky."
- Mark 14:72 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.
- Mark 15:39 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"
- Mark 16:7 εἴπατε εἶπεν aor act impv 2pl aor act ind 3sg But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"
- Mark 16:8 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.
- Mark 16:15 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to the whole creation.
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.
