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φημί

Vocabulary form:

fhmiv

Definition:

I say, affirm

Erasmian:

Modern:

Frequency:

66

GK:

5774

Root:

fe

Forms:

( e[fh [3 sg]), -, -, -, -, -

Notes:

e[fh can be either imperfect or aorist. We learned this as a vocabulary word earlier.

Biblical Concordance

Acts 25:5	“So,” he (phēsin \| φησίν \| pres act ind 3 sg) said (phēsin \| φησίν \| pres act ind 3 sg), “let your leaders go down there with me, and if there is in this man anything improper, let them bring charges against him.”
Acts 25:22	Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I too would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” said (phēsin \| φησίν \| pres act ind 3 sg) he, “you will hear him.”
Acts 25:24	And Festus said (phēsin \| φησιν \| pres act ind 3 sg), “King Agrippa, and all men present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.
Acts 26:1	So Agrippa said (ephē \| ἔφη \| imperf act ind 3 sg) to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began to make his defense:
Acts 26:24	As Paul was saying these things in his defense, Festus said (phēsin \| φησιν \| pres act ind 3 sg) in a loud voice, “You are out of your mind, Paul! Much learning is driving you insane!”
Acts 26:25	But Paul said (phēsin \| φησίν \| pres act ind 3 sg), “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but true and rational are the words that I declare.
Acts 26:32	And Agrippa said (ephē \| ἔφη \| imperf act ind 3 sg) to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
Romans 3:8	And why not say (as some slanderously claim (phasin \| φασίν \| pres act ind 3 pl) that we are saying), “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? Their condemnation is well deserved!
1 Corinthians 6:16	Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For it (phēsin \| φησίν \| pres act ind 3 sg) says (phēsin \| φησίν \| pres act ind 3 sg), “The two will become one flesh.”
1 Corinthians 7:29	And I (phēmi \| φημι \| pres act ind 1 sg) say (phēmi \| φημι \| pres act ind 1 sg) this, my brothers: the time has grown short. From now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,
1 Corinthians 10:15	I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I am about to say (phēmi \| φημι \| pres act ind 1 sg).
1 Corinthians 10:19	So what am I implying (phēmi \| φημι \| pres act ind 1 sg)? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
1 Corinthians 15:50	Now this I declare (phēmi \| φημι \| pres act ind 1 sg), brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
2 Corinthians 10:10	For some are (phēsin \| φησίν \| pres act ind 3 sg) saying (phēsin \| φησίν \| pres act ind 3 sg), “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is weak, and his rhetoric amounts to nothing.”
Hebrews 8:5	The place where they serve is a shadowy suggestion of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for he (phēsin \| φησιν \| pres act ind 3 sg) said (phēsin \| φησιν \| pres act ind 3 sg), “See that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

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