φημί [in LXX chiefly for נָאַם, also for אָמַר; frequently in 2-4 Mac ;] to declare, say: frequently in quoting the words of another, Mat.13:29 26:61, Luk.7:40 22:58, Jhn.1:23, al.; interjected into the recorded words (cl.), Mat.14:8, Act.23:35, al.; φησί, impersonal (Bl., § 30, 4), 1Co.6:16 (Lft., Notes, 217; but cf. Bl., l.with), 2Co.10:10 (WH, mg., φασίν), Heb.8:5; joined with syn. verb (cf. LS, see word, II, 2), ἀποκριθεὶς αὐτῷ ἔφη, Luk.23:3; before -πρός, Luk.22:70, al.; with accusative of thing(s), 1Co.10:15 10:19; accusative and inf., Rom.3:8; before ὅτι (Bl., § 70, 3), 1Co.10:19 15:50 (cf. σύν-φημι) (AS)
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G5346 — φημί
phēmi · to assert · Greek
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Matthew 4:7 · ἔφηJesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”Matthew 8:8 · ἔφη·The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.Matthew 13:28 · ἔφη“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’Matthew 13:29 · φησιν·“But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.Matthew 14:8 · φησὶνShe, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”Matthew 17:26 · ἔφηPeter said to him, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “Therefore the children are exempt.Matthew 19:21 · ἜφηJesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”Matthew 21:27 · ἔφηThey answered Jesus, and said, “We don’t know.” He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.Matthew 22:37 · ἔφηJesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’Matthew 25:21 · ἔφη“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’Matthew 25:23 · ἔφη“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’Matthew 26:34 · ἜφηJesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”Matthew 26:61 · ἔφη·and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”Matthew 27:11 · ἔφηNow Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”Matthew 27:23 · ἔφη·But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him be crucified!”Matthew 27:65 · ἜφηPilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.”Mark 9:12 · ἔφηHe said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?Mark 9:38 · ἜφηJohn said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone who doesn’t follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn’t follow us.”Mark 10:20 · ἔφηHe said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”Mark 10:29 · ἔφηJesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,Mark 12:24 · ἔφηJesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?Mark 14:29 · ἔφηBut Peter said to him, “Although all will be offended, yet I will not.”Luke 7:40 · φησίν.Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” He said, “Teacher, say on.”Luke 7:44 · ἔφη·Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.Luke 15:17 · ἔφη·But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!Luke 22:58 · ἔφη· · ἔφη·After a little while someone else saw him, and said, “You also are one of them!” But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”Luke 22:70 · ἔφη·They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?” He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”Luke 23:3 · ἔφη·Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”Luke 23:40 · ἔφη·But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?John 1:23 · ἔφη·He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”John 9:38 · ἔφη·He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.John 18:29 · φησίν·Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”Acts 7:2 · ἔφη·He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,Acts 8:36 · φησινAs they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”Acts 10:28 · ἔφηHe said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.Acts 10:30 · ἔφη·Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,Acts 10:31 · φησίν·and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.Acts 16:30 · ἔφη·and brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”Acts 16:37 · ἔφηBut Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”Acts 17:22 · ἔφη·Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.Acts 19:35 · φησίν·When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?Acts 21:37 · ἔφη·As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?” He said, “Do you know Greek?Acts 22:2 · φησίν·When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,Acts 22:27 · ἔφη·The commanding officer came and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” He said, “Yes.”Acts 22:28 · ἔφη·The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.” Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”Acts 23:5 · ἔφηPaul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”Acts 23:17 · ἔφη·Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”Acts 23:18 · φησίν·So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you.”Acts 23:35 · ἔφη,“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.Acts 25:5 · φησιν“Let them therefore,” said he, “that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.”Acts 25:22 · φησινAgrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”Acts 25:24 · φησινFestus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.Acts 26:1 · ἔφη·Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.Acts 26:24 · φησιν·As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”Acts 26:25 · φησινBut he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.Acts 26:32 · ἔφη·Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”Romans 3:8 · φασίνWhy not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let us do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.1 Corinthians 6:16 · φησινOr don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two,” says he, “will become one flesh.”1 Corinthians 7:29 · φημι,But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;1 Corinthians 10:15 · φημι.I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.1 Corinthians 10:19 · φημι;What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?1 Corinthians 15:50 · φημι,Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.2 Corinthians 10:10 · φησινFor, “His letters,” they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”Hebrews 8:5 · φησινwho serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”