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

Acts 16:31 And they said (eipan | εἶπαν | aor act ind 3 pl), “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 16:35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent their constables, saying (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc), “Release those men.”
Acts 17:7 and Jason has received them as guests; and all these men are acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) that there is another king, Jesus.”
Acts 17:18 Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking (elegon | ἔλεγον | imperf act ind 3 pl), “What does this babbler want to say?” (legein | λέγειν | pres act inf ) Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods,” for he was announcing the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 17:19 And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc), “May we know what is this new teaching being presented by you?
Acts 17:21 (Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their time in nothing else than to tell (legein | λέγειν | pres act inf ) or to hear something new.)
Acts 17:28 ‘For in him we live and move about and exist,’ as even some of your own poets have said (eirēkasin | εἰρήκασιν | perf act ind 3 pl), ‘For we too are his offspring.’
Acts 17:32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, but others said (eipan | εἶπαν | aor act ind 3 pl), “We will hear you again about this.”
Acts 18:6 But when they opposed and reviled him, he (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) shook out his garments and said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to them, “Your blood be on your own head! I am guiltless. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
Acts 18:9 And the Lord said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to Paul during the night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,
Acts 18:13 saying (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc), “This man is persuading men to worship God in a way contrary to the law.”
Acts 18:14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or a serious piece of villainy, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you.
Acts 18:21 but bade farewell, saying (eipōn | εἰπών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc), “I will come back to you again, God willing.” Then he set sail from Ephesus,
Acts 19:2 and said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “Why, we have not even heard if there is a Holy Spirit.”
Acts 19:3 So Paul asked (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg), “Into what then were you baptized?” And they replied (eipan | εἶπαν | aor act ind 3 pl), “Into the baptism of John.”
Acts 19:4 Paul said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg), “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
Acts 19:13 But some also of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those having evil spirits, saying (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc), “I adjure you by that Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”
Acts 19:15 But the evil spirit answering said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”
Acts 19:21 Now after all these things had taken place, Paul resolved in spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and on to Jerusalem, saying (eipōn | εἰπών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc), “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
Acts 19:25 He (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) called them together with workmen in similar trades, and said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg), “Men, you know that from this trade prosperity comes to us.
Acts 19:26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying (legōn | λέγων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) that gods made by hand are not gods at all.
Acts 19:28 When they heard this, they were filled with anger and began to cry out, saying (legontes | λέγοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc), “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
Acts 19:40 For indeed we are in danger of being charged in connection with this day’s riot, there being no cause for it; and we will not be able to give an explanation for it.” And having (eipōn | εἰπών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc) said (eipōn | εἰπών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc) this, he dismissed the assembly.
Acts 20:10 But Paul went down and threw himself on him, and putting his arms around him, said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg), “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”
Acts 20:18 And when they came to him, he said (eipen | εἶπεν | aor act ind 3 sg) to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day on which I set foot in Asia,