λέγω

legō

Greek G3004 Verb 1,177 occurrences in 1,098 verses
λέγω to say

λέγω,

[in LXX very freq., chiefly for אמר; λέγει for נְאֻם, Gen.22:16, al. ;]

1. in Hom., to pick out, gather, reckon, recount.

2. In Hdt. and Att., to say, speak, affirm, declare: absol., Act.13:15, 24:10; before orat. dir., Mat.9:34, Mrk.3:11, Jhn.1:29, al.; before ὅτι recit., Mrk.3:21, Luk.1:24, Jhn.6:14, al.; accusative and inf., Luk.11:18, Jhn.12:29, al.; after another verb of speaking, προσφωνεῖν κ. λέγειν, Mat.11:17, al.; ἀπεκρίθη (ἐλάλησεν) λέγων (καὶ λέγει; Dalman, Words, 24 ff.), Mat.25:9, Mrk.3:33, 7:28, Luk.24:6, 7, al.; of unspoken thought, λ. ἐν ἑαυτῷ, Mat.3:9, Luk.3:8, al.; of writing, 2Co.8:8, Php.4:11, al.; λέγει ἡ γραφή, Rom.4:3, Jas.2:23, al.; with accusative of thing(s), Luk.8:8, 9:33, Jhn.5:34, al.; σὺ λέγεις (a non-committal phrase; Swete, Mk., 359, 369f.), Mat.27:11, Mrk.15:2, Luk.23:3, Jhn.18:37; with dative of person(s), before orat. dir., Mat.8:20, Mrk.2:17, al. mult.; id. before ὅτι, Mat.3:9, al.; with prep., πρός, μετά, περί, etc., Mrk.4:41, Jhn.11:56, Heb.9:5, al.; to mean (cl.), Mrk.14:71, Jhn.6:71, 1Co.10:29, al.; to call, name, Mrk.10:18; pass., Mat.9:9, Mrk.15:7, al (cf. ἀντι-, δια- (-μαι), προ-, συλ-λέγω).

SYN.: λαλέω, which refers to the utterance, as λέγω to the meaning of what is said, its correspondence with thought (Tr., Syn., Ixxvi; Thayer, see word λαλέω). (AS)

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Concordance 1,098 verses

  1. John 7:15 λέγοντες

    The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”

  2. John 7:26 λέγουσιν

    Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?

  3. John 7:28 λέγων

    Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,

  4. John 7:37 λέγων

    On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

  5. John 7:50 Λέγει

    Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,

  6. John 8:4 λέγουσιν

    and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

  7. John 8:5 λέγεις

    In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”

  8. John 8:12 λέγων

    Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

  9. John 8:22 λέγει

    So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

  10. John 8:33 λέγεις

    “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”

  11. John 8:34 λέγω

    Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

  12. John 8:39 Λέγει

    “Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.

  13. John 8:45 λέγω

    But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!

  14. John 8:46 λέγω

    Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?

  15. John 8:48 λέγομεν

    The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”

  16. John 8:51 λέγω

    Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”

  17. John 8:52 λέγεις

    “Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.

  18. John 8:54 λέγετε

    Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say ‘He is our God.’

  19. John 8:58 λέγω

    “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

  20. John 9:2 λέγοντες

    and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

  21. John 9:11 λεγόμενος

    He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”

  22. John 9:12 Λέγει

    “Where is He?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.

  23. John 9:17 λέγουσινλέγεις

    So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

  24. John 9:19 λέγοντεςλέγετε

    and asked, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he can now see?”

  25. John 9:41 λέγετε

    “If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

  26. John 10:1 λέγω

    “Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

  27. John 10:7 λέγω

    So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

  28. John 10:36 λέγετε

    then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?

  29. John 11:3 λέγουσαι

    So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

  30. John 11:7 λέγει

    and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

  31. John 11:8 Λέγουσιν

    “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”

  32. John 11:11 λέγει

    After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

  33. John 11:13 λέγει

    They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.

  34. John 11:16 λεγόμενος

    Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”

  35. John 11:23 Λέγει

    “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.

  36. John 11:24 Λέγει

    Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

  37. John 11:27 Λέγει

    “Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

  38. John 11:32 λέγουσα

    When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

  39. John 11:34 Λέγουσιν

    “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.

  40. John 11:39 λέγειΛέγει

    “Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”

  41. John 11:40 Λέγει

    Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”

  42. John 11:44 Λέγει

    The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.

  43. John 11:54 λεγομένην

    As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

  44. John 12:4 Λέγει

    But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray Him, asked,

  45. John 12:21 λέγοντες

    They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

  46. John 12:22 λέγειλέγουσιν

    Philip relayed this appeal to Andrew, and both of them went and told Jesus.

  47. John 12:23 λέγων

    But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

  48. John 12:24 λέγω

    Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

  49. John 12:34 λέγεις

    The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

  50. John 13:6 λέγει

    He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”

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