λέγω | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

λέγω

Definition

I say, speak

Erasmian

Modern

Frequency

2353

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 11:44	The dead man came out, his feet and his hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg) to them, “Unwrap him, and let him go.”
John 11:46	Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told (eipan \| εἶπαν \| aor act ind 3 pl) them what Jesus had done.
John 11:47	So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council together and said (elegon \| ἔλεγον \| imperf act ind 3 pl), “What are we going to do? For this man is performing many signs.
John 11:49	But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) to them, “You know nothing at all.
John 11:51	He (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) did (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) not say (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) this on his own, but being high priest that year he was prophesying that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
John 11:54	Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called (legomenēn \| λεγομένην \| pres pass ptcp acc sg fem) Ephraim, and he stayed there with his disciples.
John 11:56	They were looking for Jesus and were talking (elegon \| ἔλεγον \| imperf act ind 3 pl) with one another as they were standing in the temple, “What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?”
John 12:4	But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who would betray him) said (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg),
John 12:6	He said (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as keeper of the money box, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
John 12:7	Jesus therefore said (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg), “Leave her alone. She had to keep this perfume for the day of my burial.
John 12:19	The Pharisees therefore said (eipan \| εἶπαν \| aor act ind 3 pl) to one another, “You see, you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after him!”
John 12:21	So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, saying (legontes \| λέγοντες \| pres act ptcp nom pl masc), “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”
John 12:22	Philip went and told (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg) Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told (legousin \| λέγουσιν \| pres act ind 3 pl) Jesus.
John 12:23	And Jesus answered them, saying (legōn \| λέγων \| pres act ptcp nom sg masc), “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
John 12:24	I (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg) tell (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg) you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single kernel; but if it dies it produces a great harvest.
John 12:27	“Now is my heart deeply troubled. And what am I to say (eipō \| εἴπω \| aor act subj 1 sg)? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? But for this very purpose I have come to this hour!
John 12:29	The crowd that was standing there and had heard the voice said (elegen \| ἔλεγεν \| imperf act ind 3 sg) that it was thunder; others said (elegon \| ἔλεγον \| imperf act ind 3 pl), “An angel has spoken to him.”
John 12:30	Jesus answered, saying (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg), “This voice was not for my benefit, but for yours.
John 12:33	He (elegen \| ἔλεγεν \| imperf act ind 3 sg) said (elegen \| ἔλεγεν \| imperf act ind 3 sg) this to signify the kind of death he was going to die.
John 12:34	The crowd responded, “We have heard from the law that the Christ is to remain forever; so how is it that you are saying (legeis \| λέγεις \| pres act ind 2 sg) that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
John 12:35	Then Jesus said (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) to them, “The light will be with you for yet a little while. Keep walking while you have the light, so that the darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
John 12:38	that the word spoken (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
John 12:39	The reason why they could not believe was that in another place Isaiah said (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg),
John 12:41	Isaiah said (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) these things because he saw Christ’s glory and spoke of him.
John 12:44	Then Jesus cried out, saying (eipen \| εἶπεν \| aor act ind 3 sg), “The one who believes in me believes not only in me but in the one who sent me.