λέγω | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

λέγω

Definition

I say, speak

Erasmian

Modern

Root

λεγ

Frequency

2353

3306

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

Romans 4:18	Hoping against hope, Abraham believed that he would become the father of many nations according to what had been spoken (eirēmenon \| εἰρημένον \| perf pass ptcp acc sg neut), “So will your descendants be.”
Romans 6:1	What then shall we say (eroumen \| ἐροῦμεν \| fut act ind 1 pl)? — “Let us continue in sin so that grace may increase”?
Romans 6:19	(I (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg) am (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg) speaking (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg) in human terms because of your natural limitations.) For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.
Romans 7:7	What then shall we say (eroumen \| ἐροῦμεν \| fut act ind 1 pl)? Is the law sin? By no means! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law; that is, I would not have known what it means to covet had (elegen \| ἔλεγεν \| imperf act ind 3 sg) not the law said (elegen \| ἔλεγεν \| imperf act ind 3 sg), “You shall not covet.”
Romans 8:31	What then shall we say (eroumen \| ἐροῦμεν \| fut act ind 1 pl) in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 9:1	I (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg) am (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg) telling (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg) the truth in Christ — I am not lying; my conscience convinces me in the Holy Spirit —
Romans 9:12	not because of works, but because of his call — it was said (errethē \| ἐρρέθη \| aor pass ind 3 sg) to her, “The older will serve the younger.”
Romans 9:14	What then shall we say (eroumen \| ἐροῦμεν \| fut act ind 1 pl)? Is there not injustice on God’s part? By no means!
Romans 9:15	For he (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg) says (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg) to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Romans 9:17	For the scripture says (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg) to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might display my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
Romans 9:19	So you will say (ereis \| ἐρεῖς \| fut act ind 2 sg) to me, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
Romans 9:20	But who are you, a mere mortal, to criticize God? Certainly the thing that is molded may (erei \| ἐρεῖ \| fut act ind 3 sg) not say (erei \| ἐρεῖ \| fut act ind 3 sg) to the one who molded it, “Why have you made me like this?”
Romans 9:25	As he (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg) also says (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg) in Hosea, “Those who were not my people, I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved, I will call ‘beloved.’”
Romans 9:26	“And in the very place where God said (errethē \| ἐρρέθη \| aor pass ind 3 sg) to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
Romans 9:30	What then shall we say (eroumen \| ἐροῦμεν \| fut act ind 1 pl)? — that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have obtained it, the righteousness that is by faith;
Romans 10:6	But the righteousness based on faith says (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg), “Do (eipēs \| εἴπῃς \| aor act subj 2 sg) not say (eipēs \| εἴπῃς \| aor act subj 2 sg) in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),
Romans 10:8	But what does it say (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg)? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith that we proclaim:
Romans 10:11	For the Scripture says (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg), “Whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Romans 10:16	However, not all of them have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg), “Lord, who has believed our message?”
Romans 10:18	But I ask (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg), have they not heard? Indeed they have, for, “Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”
Romans 10:19	But I ask (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg), did Israel not understand? First of all, Moses says (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg), “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; by a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”
Romans 10:20	Then Isaiah very boldly says (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg), “I was found by those who were not looking for me; I became well known to those who were not asking for me.”
Romans 10:21	But concerning Israel he says (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg), “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and argumentative people.”
Romans 11:1	So I ask (legō \| λέγω \| pres act ind 1 sg), has God repudiated his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2	God has not repudiated his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says (legei \| λέγει \| pres act ind 3 sg) in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?