λέγω
to say
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Full lexicon entry — 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.
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Luke 271 verses
- Luke 16:3 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
- Luke 16:6 εἶπεν εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg He said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'
- Luke 16:7 εἶπεν εἶπεν λέγει aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
- Luke 16:15 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
- Luke 16:24 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'
- Luke 16:25 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
- Luke 16:27 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg "He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;
- Luke 16:30 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
- Luke 16:31 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
- Luke 17:1 Εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!
- Luke 17:5 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
- Luke 17:6 εἶπεν ἐλέγετε aor act ind 3sg impf act ind 2pl The Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, 'Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
- Luke 17:14 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed.
- Luke 17:17 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
- Luke 17:19 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you."
- Luke 17:20 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation;
- Luke 17:22 Εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
- Luke 17:37 λέγουσιν εἶπεν pres act ind 3pl aor act ind 3sg They answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together."
- Luke 18:4 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
- Luke 18:6 εἶπεν λέγει aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
- Luke 18:9 Εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
- Luke 18:19 εἶπεν λέγεις aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 2sg Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one--God.
- Luke 18:21 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up."
- Luke 18:22 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."
- Luke 18:24 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
- Luke 18:26 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"
- Luke 18:27 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God."
- Luke 18:28 Εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."
- Luke 18:29 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg He said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,
- Luke 18:31 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.
- Luke 18:41 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again."
- Luke 18:42 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you."
- Luke 19:5 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."
- Luke 19:8 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."
- Luke 19:9 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
- Luke 19:11 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.
- Luke 19:12 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
- Luke 19:13 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
- Luke 19:15 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg "It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
- Luke 19:17 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'
- Luke 19:19 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'
- Luke 19:24 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.'
- Luke 19:25 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'
- Luke 19:28 εἰπὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
- Luke 19:30 εἰπών aor act ptcp nom sg masc saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.
- Luke 19:32 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them.
- Luke 19:33 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl As they were untying the colt, the owners of it said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"
- Luke 19:34 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They said, "The Lord needs it."
- Luke 19:39 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
- Luke 19:40 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out."
- Luke 20:2 εἶπαν λέγοντες εἰπὸν aor act ind 3pl pres act ptcp nom pl masc aor act impv 2sg They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
- Luke 20:3 εἶπεν εἴπατέ aor act ind 3sg aor act impv 2pl He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me:
- Luke 20:5 λέγοντες εἴπωμεν pres act ptcp nom pl masc aor act subj 1pl They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'
- Luke 20:6 εἴπωμεν aor act subj 1pl But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
- Luke 20:8 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
- Luke 20:13 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'
- Luke 20:16 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"
- Luke 20:17 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the chief cornerstone?'
- Luke 20:19 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.
- Luke 20:23 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me?
- Luke 20:24 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar's."
- Luke 20:25 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
- Luke 20:34 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.
- Luke 20:39 εἶπαν εἶπας aor act ind 3pl aor act ind 2sg Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well."
- Luke 20:41 Εἶπεν λέγουσιν aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 3pl He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David's son?
- Luke 20:42 λέγει εἶπεν pres act ind 3sg aor act ind 3sg David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
- Luke 20:45 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,
- Luke 21:3 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,
- Luke 21:5 λεγόντων εἶπεν pres act ptcp gen pl masc aor act ind 3sg As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
- Luke 21:8 εἶπεν λέγοντες aor act ind 3sg pres act ptcp nom pl masc He said, "Watch out that you don't get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I AM,' and, 'The time is at hand.' Therefore don't follow them.
- Luke 21:29 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees.
- Luke 22:8 εἰπών aor act ptcp nom sg masc He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat."
- Luke 22:9 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare?"
- Luke 22:10 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.
- Luke 22:15 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,
- Luke 22:17 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves,
- Luke 22:25 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.'
- Luke 22:33 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"
- Luke 22:34 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times."
- Luke 22:35 εἶπεν εἶπαν aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 3pl He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing."
- Luke 22:36 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.
- Luke 22:38 εἶπαν εἶπεν aor act ind 3pl aor act ind 3sg They said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough."
- Luke 22:40 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg When he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray that you don't enter into temptation."
- Luke 22:46 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
- Luke 22:48 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But Jesus said to him, "Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"
- Luke 22:49 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?"
- Luke 22:51 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But Jesus answered, "Let me at least do this"--and he touched his ear, and healed him.
- Luke 22:52 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
- Luke 22:56 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him."
- Luke 22:60 εἶπεν λέγεις aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 2sg But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
- Luke 22:61 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times."
- Luke 22:66 λέγοντες εἰπὸν pres act ptcp nom pl masc aor act impv 2sg As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,
- Luke 22:67 εἶπεν εἴπω aor act ind 3sg aor act subj 1sg "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won't believe,
- Luke 22:70 εἶπαν λέγετε aor act ind 3pl pres act ind 2pl They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I AM."
- Luke 22:71 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!"
- Luke 23:4 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."
- Luke 23:14 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
- Luke 23:22 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."
- Luke 23:28 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
- Luke 23:43 εἶπεν λέγω aor act ind 3sg pres act ind 1sg Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
- Luke 23:46 εἶπεν εἰπὼν aor act ind 3sg aor act ptcp nom sg masc Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.
- Luke 24:5 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?
- Luke 24:17 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?"
- Luke 24:18 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have happened there in these days?"
- Luke 24:19 εἶπεν εἶπαν aor act ind 3sg aor act ind 3pl He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
- Luke 24:24 εἶπον aor act ind 3pl Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn't see him."
- Luke 24:25 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
- Luke 24:32 εἶπαν aor act ind 3pl They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"
- Luke 24:38 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?
- Luke 24:41 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"
- Luke 24:44 Εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled."
- Luke 24:46 εἶπεν aor act ind 3sg He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
John 194 verses
- 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.
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.
