Vocabulary Form
λέγω
Definition

I say, speak

Erasmian
Modern
Frequency
2353
GK
3306
Forms
(ἔλεγον), ἐρῶ, εἶπον or εἶπα, εἴρηκα, εἴρημαι, ἐρρέθην or ἐρρήθην
Mnemonics

I say, let go of my well-known waffle.

Mnemonic Singing

By His love and power controlling,
all I do and say.

Song

Biblical Concordance

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.