λέγω, [in LXX very freq., chiefly for אמר; λέγει for נְאֻם, Gen.22:16, al. ;] 1. in Hom., to pick out, gather, reckon, recount. 2. In Hdt. and Att., to say, speak, affirm, declare: absol., Act.13:15, 24:10; before orat. dir., Mat.9:34, Mrk.3:11, Jhn.1:29, al.; before ὅτι recit., Mrk.3:21, Luk.1:24, Jhn.6:14, al.; accusative and inf., Luk.11:18, Jhn.12:29, al.; after another verb of speaking, προσφωνεῖν κ. λέγειν, Mat.11:17, al.; ἀπεκρίθη (ἐλάλησεν) λέγων (καὶ λέγει; Dalman, Words, 24 ff.), Mat.25:9, Mrk.3:33, 7:28, Luk.24:6, 7, al.; of unspoken thought, λ. ἐν ἑαυτῷ, Mat.3:9, Luk.3:8, al.; of writing, 2Co.8:8, Php.4:11, al.; λέγει ἡ γραφή, Rom.4:3, Jas.2:23, al.; with accusative of thing(s), Luk.8:8, 9:33, Jhn.5:34, al.; σὺ λέγεις (a non-committal phrase; Swete, Mk., 359, 369f.), Mat.27:11, Mrk.15:2, Luk.23:3, Jhn.18:37; with dative of person(s), before orat. dir., Mat.8:20, Mrk.2:17, al. mult.; id. before ὅτι, Mat.3:9, al.; with prep., πρός, μετά, περί, etc., Mrk.4:41, Jhn.11:56, Heb.9:5, al.; to mean (cl.), Mrk.14:71, Jhn.6:71, 1Co.10:29, al.; to call, name, Mrk.10:18; pass., Mat.9:9, Mrk.15:7, al (cf. ἀντι-, δια- (-μαι), προ-, συλ-λέγω). SYN.: λαλέω, which refers to the utterance, as λέγω to the meaning of what is said, its correspondence with thought (Tr., Syn., Ixxvi; Thayer, see word λαλέω). (AS)
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G4483 — ἐρέω
rheō, ereō · to say · Greek
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Matthew 7:4 · ἐρεῖςor, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam is in thine own eye?Matthew 7:22 · ἐροῦσίνMany will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things?Matthew 13:30 · ἐρῶsuffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.’Matthew 17:20 · ἐρεῖτεAnd Jesus said to them, ‘Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,Matthew 21:3 · ἐρεῖτεand if any one may say anything to you, ye shall say, that the lord hath need of them, and immediately he will send them.’Matthew 21:24 · ἐρῶAnd Jesus answering said to them, ‘I will ask you—I also—one word, which if ye may tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things;Matthew 21:25 · ἐρεῖthe baptism of John, whence was it?—from heaven, or from men?’ And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, ‘If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?Matthew 25:34 · ἐρεῖ‘Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;Matthew 25:40 · ἐρεῖAnd the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren—the least—to me ye did it.Matthew 25:41 · ἐρεῖThen shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;Mark 11:29 · ἐρῶAnd Jesus answering said to them, ‘I will question you—I also—one word; and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things;Mark 11:31 · ἐρεῖ·And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, ‘If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?Luke 4:23 · ἐρεῖτέAnd he said unto them, ‘Certainly ye will say to me this simile, Physician, heal thyself; as great things as we heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country;’Luke 12:10 · ἐρεῖand every one whoever shall say a word to the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven to him, but to him who to the Holy Spirit did speak evil, it shall not be forgiven.Luke 12:19 · ἐρῶand I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.Luke 13:25 · ἐρεῖfrom the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,Luke 13:27 · ἐρεῖ·and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.Luke 14:9 · ἐρεῖand he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.Luke 14:10 · ἐρεῖ‘But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;Luke 15:18 · ἐρῶhaving risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin—to the heaven, and before thee,Luke 17:7 · ἐρεῖ‘But, who is he of you—having a servant ploughing or feeding—who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?Luke 17:8 · ἐρεῖbut will not rather say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?Luke 17:21 · ἐροῦσιν·nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.’Luke 17:23 · ἐροῦσινand they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;Luke 19:31 · ἐρεῖτεand if any one doth question you, Wherefore do ye loose it? thus ye shall say to him—The Lord hath need of it.’Luke 20:5 · ἐρεῖ·And they reasoned with themselves, saying—‘If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?Luke 22:11 · ἐρεῖτεand ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where the passover with my disciples I may eat?Luke 23:29 · ἐροῦσιν·for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;Acts 23:5 · ἐρεῖςand Paul said, ‘I did not know, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it hath been written, Of the ruler of thy people thou shalt not speak evil;’Romans 3:5 · ἐροῦμεν;And, if our unrighteousness God’s righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)Romans 4:1 · ἐροῦμενWhat, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?Romans 6:1 · ἐροῦμεν;What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?Romans 7:7 · ἐροῦμεν;What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:Romans 8:31 · ἐροῦμενWhat, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us?Romans 9:14 · ἐροῦμεν;What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be!Romans 9:19 · ἘρεῖςThou wilt say, then, to me, ‘Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?’Romans 9:20 · ἐρεῖnay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus?Romans 9:30 · ἐροῦμεν;What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that is of faith,Romans 11:19 · ἐρεῖςThou wilt say, then, ‘The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;’ right!1 Corinthians 14:16 · ἐρεῖsince, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?1 Corinthians 14:23 · ἐροῦσινIf, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?1 Corinthians 15:35 · ἐρεῖBut some one will say, ‘How do the dead rise?2 Corinthians 12:6 · ἐρῶ·for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;Philippians 4:4 · ἐρῶ,Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;James 2:18 · ἐρεῖBut say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:Revelation 17:7 · ἐρῶand the messenger said to me, ‘Wherefore didst thou wonder? I—I will tell thee the secret of the woman and of the beast that is carrying her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.