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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

Hebrews 4:3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, just as God has said (eirēken | εἴρηκεν | perf act ind 3 sg), “As I swore in my anger, ‘They shall certainly not enter my rest,’” and yet his work has been completed since the foundation of the world
Hebrews 4:4 For somewhere he has spoken (eirēken | εἴρηκεν | perf act ind 3 sg) of the seventh day in this manner: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”
Hebrews 4:7 God again ordains a certain day — “today” — saying (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) through David, after so long a time, just as it has been said before, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
Hebrews 5:6 as also in another place God says (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg), “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 5:11 On this subject we have much to say and it is hard to explain (legein | λέγειν | pres act inf ), since you have become sluggish in understanding.
Hebrews 6:14 saying (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc), “Sure I will surely bless you greatly and increase your descendants abundantly.”
Hebrews 7:9 And it could be said that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,
Hebrews 7:11 If, then, perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people had received the law), what further need would there have been for another kind of priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, rather than one designated (legesthai | λέγεσθαι | pres pass inf ) after the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 7:13 For the one of whom these things are said (legetai | λέγεται | pres pass ind 3 sg) belongs to a different tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.
Hebrews 7:21 but he became a priest with an oath by the one who said (legontos | λέγοντος | pres act ptcp gen sg masc) to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’”),
Hebrews 8:1 Now the crowning affirmation to what we are saying (legomenois | λεγομένοις | pres pass ptcp dat pl neut) is this: we do have such a high priest, who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
Hebrews 8:8 For finding fault, God says (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) to them, “Behold, days are coming, declares (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
Hebrews 8:9 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I abandoned them, says (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) the Lord.
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, declares (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people.
Hebrews 8:11 And they will not teach each one his neighbor and each one his brother saying (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc), ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest.
Hebrews 8:13 In speaking (legein | λέγειν | pres act inf ) of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
Hebrews 9:2 For a tent was set up. The outer room, in which were the lampstand and the table and the consecrated bread, was called (legetai | λέγεται | pres pass ind 3 sg) “the Holy Place.”
Hebrews 9:3 Behind the curtain was a second room, a shrine called (legomenē | λεγομένη | pres pass ptcp nom sg fem) “the Most Holy Place.”
Hebrews 9:5 Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of forgiveness. Of these things we cannot now speak (legein | λέγειν | pres act inf ) in detail.
Hebrews 9:20 saying (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc), “This is the blood of the covenant which God ordained for you.”
Hebrews 10:5 Therefore when he came into the world, he said (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg), “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
Hebrews 10:7 Then I said (eipon | εἶπον | aor act ind 1 sg), ‘Behold, I have come — in the scroll of a book it is written about me — to do your will, O God.’”
Hebrews 10:8 After (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) he (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) said (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) what I just quoted, “You did not take pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings (namely those offered according to the law),
Hebrews 10:9 then he added (eirēken | εἴρηκεν | perf act ind 3 sg), “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
Hebrews 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying (eirēkenai | εἰρηκέναι | perf act inf ),
Hebrews 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, declares (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg) the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,”
Hebrews 10:30 For we know the one who said (eiponta | εἰπόντα | aor act ptcp acc sg masc), “Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
Hebrews 11:14 For those who (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) speak (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a land of their own.
Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, disdained to be called (legesthai | λέγεσθαι | pres pass inf ) the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
Hebrews 11:32 And what more shall I say (legō | λέγω | pres act subj 1 sg)? For time would fail me if I told about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, about both David and Samuel and the prophets,
Hebrews 12:21 And so awesome was the spectacle that Moses said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg), “I am terrified and trembling.”
Hebrews 12:26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more will I shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”
Hebrews 13:5 Your conduct must be free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for God himself has said (eirēken | εἴρηκεν | perf act ind 3 sg), “I will never leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:6 So we can (legein | λέγειν | pres act inf ) say (legein | λέγειν | pres act inf ) with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
James 1:13 No one when tempted should say (legetō | λεγέτω | pres act imperative 3 sg), “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted to do evil, and he himself tempts no one else.
James 2:3 and you pay special attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say (eipēte | εἴπητε | aor act subj 2 pl), “You sit here in a good place,” but to the poor man you say (eipēte | εἴπητε | aor act subj 2 pl), “You stand over there, or sit down here at my feet,”
James 2:11 For he who said (eipōn | εἰπών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc), “Do not commit adultery,” also said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg), “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
James 2:14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims (legē | λέγῃ | pres act subj 3 sg) to have faith but has no works? Can that kind of faith save him?
James 2:16 and one of you says (eipē | εἴπῃ | aor act subj 3 sg) to them, “Go in peace; stay warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not give them what their body needs, what good is that?
James 2:18 But someone will say (erei | ἐρεῖ | fut act ind 3 sg), “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says (legousa | λέγουσα | pres act ptcp nom sg fem), “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
James 4:5 Or do you imagine that scripture has no meaning when it says (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg), “God yearns jealously over the spirit that he has placed in us”?
James 4:6 But he gives greater grace. That is why scripture says (legei | λέγει | pres act ind 3 sg), “God opposes the proud but he gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:13 Come now, you who say (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp voc pl masc), “Today or tomorrow we will go to some city and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
James 4:15 Instead, you ought to say (legein | λέγειν | pres act inf ), “If the Lord so decrees, then we will live and do this or that.”
2 Peter 3:4 and saying (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc), “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything has gone along as it has from the beginning of creation.”
1 John 1:6 If we say (eipōmen | εἴπωμεν | aor act subj 1 pl) that we have fellowship with him but continue to walk in darkness, we lie and are not putting the truth into practice.
1 John 1:8 If we say (eipōmen | εἴπωμεν | aor act subj 1 pl) that we are without sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:10 If we say (eipōmen | εἴπωμεν | aor act subj 1 pl) that we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.
1 John 2:4 The one who says (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc), “I know God,” yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him.

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