Vocabulary Form
λέγω
Definition

I say, speak

Erasmian
Modern
Root
λεγ
Frequency
2353
GK
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

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 ),