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λέγω

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
λέγω
Greek transliteration: 
legō
Simplified transliteration: 
lego
Principal Parts: 
(ἔλεγον), ἐρῶ, εἶ\πον ορ εἶ\πα, εἴρηκα, εἴρημαι, ἐρρέθην ορ ἐρρήθην
Numbers
Strong's number: 
2036
GK Number: 
3306
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
2353
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
v-1b(2)
Gloss: 
say, said, the most general term for speaking in the NT, translated contextually with more specific words such as say, tell; ask, answer
Definition: 
to lay, to arrange, to gather; to say, Mt. 1:20; to speak, make an address or speech, Acts 26:1; to say mentally, in thought, Mt. 3:9; Lk. 3:8; to say in written language, Mk. 15:28; Lk. 1:63; Jn. 19:37; to say, as distinguished from acting, Mt. 23:3; to mention, speak of, Mk. 14:71; Lk. 9:31; Jn. 8:27; to tell, declare, narrate, Mt. 21:27; Mk. 10:32; to express, Heb. 5:11; to put forth, propound, Lk. 5:36; 13:6; Jn. 16:29; to mean, to intend to signify, 1 Cor. 1:12; 10:29; to say, declare, affirm, maintain, Mt. 3:9; 5:18; Mk. 12:18; Acts 17:7; 26:22; 1 Cor. 1:10; to enjoin, Acts 15:24; 21:21; Rom. 2:22; to term, designate, cull, Mt. 19:17; Mk. 12:37; Lk. 20:37; 23:2; 1 Cor. 8:5; to call by a name, Mt. 2:23; pass. to be further named, to be surnamed, Mt. 1:16; to be explained, interpreted, Jn. 4:25; 20:16, 24; in NT σὺ λέγεις, you say, a form of affirmative answer to a question Mt. 27:11; Mk. 15:2; Jn. 18:37

Greek-English Concordance for λέγω

John 3:2 This man came to Jesus by night and said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one is able to perform the miraculous signs that you are doing unless God is with him.”
John 3:3 Jesus answered him, saying (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg), “I (legō | λέγω | pres act ind 1 sg) tell (legō | λέγω | pres act ind 1 sg) you the solemn truth, unless a person is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:4 Nicodemus said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter into his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”
John 3:5 Jesus answered, “I (legō | λέγω | pres act ind 1 sg) tell (legō | λέγω | pres act ind 1 sg) you the solemn truth, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:7 Do not be astonished that I said (eipon | εἶπον | aor act ind 1 sg) to you, ‘You must be born again.’
John 3:9 Nicodemus replied, saying (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to him, “How can these things be?”
John 3:10 Jesus answered, saying (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and you do not understand these things?”
John 3:11 “I (legō | λέγω | pres act ind 1 sg) tell (legō | λέγω | pres act ind 1 sg) you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.
John 3:12 If I (eipon | εἶπον | aor act ind 1 sg) have (eipon | εἶπον | aor act ind 1 sg) told (eipon | εἶπον | aor act ind 1 sg) you about (eipon | εἶπον | aor act ind 1 sg) earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell (eipō | εἴπω | aor act subj 1 sg) you about (eipō | εἴπω | aor act subj 1 sg) heavenly things?
John 3:26 So they came to John and said (eipan | εἶπαν | aor act ind 3 pl) to him, “Rabbi, that man who was with you on the far side of the Jordan, the one to whom you bore witness — well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him!”
John 3:27 John responded, saying (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg), “A man cannot receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
John 3:28 You yourselves bear me witness that I said (eipon | εἶπον | aor act ind 1 sg), ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I am the one sent ahead of him.’
John 4:5 So he came to a town in Samaria called (legomenēn | λεγομένην | pres pass ptcp acc sg fem) Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
John 4:7 There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to her, “Give me a drink.”
John 4:9 The Samaritan woman said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, are asking for a drink from me, a woman from Samaria?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)
John 4:10 Jesus answered her, saying (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg), “If you had known the gift of God and who it was that said (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 4:11 The woman said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to him, “Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep. How then are you going to draw the living water?
John 4:13 Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
John 4:15 The woman said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
John 4:16 Jesus said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back here.”
John 4:17 The woman replied “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to her, “You (eipas | εἶπας | aor act ind 2 sg) are (eipas | εἶπας | aor act ind 2 sg) right in saying (eipas | εἶπας | aor act ind 2 sg), ‘I do not have a husband,’
John 4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You (eirēkas | εἴρηκας | perf act ind 2 sg) have (eirēkas | εἴρηκας | perf act ind 2 sg) spoken (eirēkas | εἴρηκας | perf act ind 2 sg) the truth.”
John 4:19 The woman said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.
John 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say (legete | λέγετε | pres act ind 2 pl) that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem.”
John 4:21 Jesus said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to her, “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
John 4:25 The woman said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (the one called (legomenos | λεγόμενος | pres pass ptcp nom sg masc) Christ). When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
John 4:26 Jesus said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
John 4:27 Just then his disciples came back. They were astonished that he was talking with a woman; however, no one said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to her, “What do you want?” or to him, “Why are you talking with her?”
John 4:28 Then the woman left her water jar and went off to the town. She told (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) the people there,
John 4:29 “Come and see a man who told (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) me everything I have ever done! Could this man be the Messiah?”
John 4:31 In the meantime the disciples kept urging Jesus, saying (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc), “Rabbi, take something to eat.”
John 4:32 But he said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to them, “I have food to eat of which you know nothing.”
John 4:33 Then the disciples began to say (elegon | ἔλεγον | imperf act ind 3 pl) to one another, “No one has brought him something to eat, have they?”
John 4:34 Jesus said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish the work he gave me to do.
John 4:35 Do you not say (legete | λέγετε | pres act ind 2 pl), ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? But I tell (legō | λέγω | pres act ind 1 sg) you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields; they are white, ready for harvest.
John 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of what the woman had said when she testified, “He told (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) me everything I ever did.”
John 4:42 They (elegon | ἔλεγον | imperf act ind 3 pl) said (elegon | ἔλεγον | imperf act ind 3 pl) to the woman, “No longer is it because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard him for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”
John 4:48 Jesus therefore said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!”
John 4:49 The officer said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to him, “Sir, come down before my little boy dies.”
John 4:50 Jesus replied (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) “Go, your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to him, and he set off for home.
John 4:51 While he was still on his way down his servants met him and told (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) him that his son was living.
John 4:52 So he asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they said (eipan | εἶπαν | aor act ind 3 pl) to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
John 4:53 Then the father realized that was at that very hour when Jesus had said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to him, “Your son lives,” and he became a believer, as did his entire household.
John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in that condition for a long time already, he said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
John 5:8 Jesus said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to him, “Get up, pick up your mat and walk.”
John 5:10 So the Jews said (elegon | ἔλεγον | imperf act ind 3 pl) to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.
John 5:11 But he answered them, “The man who made me well said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
John 5:12 They questioned him, “Who is the man who said (eipōn | εἰπών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc) to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
John 5:14 Later on Jesus found him in the temple and said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to him, “See, you have been healed! Do not sin any longer, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
John 5:18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he not only used to break the Sabbath, but he (elegen | ἔλεγεν | imperf act ind 3 sg) also was (elegen | ἔλεγεν | imperf act ind 3 sg) calling (elegen | ἔλεγεν | imperf act ind 3 sg) God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

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