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Strong's #2980: laleo (pronounced lal-eh'-o)

a prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. utter words:--preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter. Compare 3004.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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laleō

1) to utter a voice or emit a sound

2) to speak

2a) to use the tongue or the faculty of speech

2b) to utter articulate sounds

3) to talk

4) to utter, tell

5) to use words in order to declare one' s mind and disclose one' s thoughts

5a) to speak

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb

Citing in TDNT: 4:69, 505




Usage:

This word is used 299 times:

John 9:37: "and it is he that talketh with thee."
John 10:6: "what things they were which he spake unto them."
John 12:29: "that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him."
John 12:36: "the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide"
John 12:41: "his glory, and spake of him."
John 12:48: "the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in"
John 12:49: "For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father"
John 12:49: "I should say, and what I should speak."
John 12:50: "everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father"
John 12:50: "said unto me, so I speak."
John 14:10: "words that I speak unto you I speak not of"
John 14:10: "I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but"
John 14:25: "These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you."
John 14:30: "Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the"
John 15:3: "the word which I have spoken unto you."
John 15:11: "These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in"
John 15:22: "I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:"
John 16:1: "These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended."
John 16:4: "But these things have I told you, that when the time"
John 16:6: "But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your"
John 16:13: "truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever"
John 16:13: "but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you"
John 16:18: "A little while? we cannot tell what he saith."
John 16:25: "These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh,"
John 16:25: "when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but"
John 16:29: "unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no"
John 16:33: "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace."
John 17:1: "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to"
John 17:13: "thee; and these things I speak in the world, that"
John 18:20: "and in secret have I said"
John 18:20: "answered him, I spake openly to the world; I"
John 18:20: "and in secret have I said"
John 18:21: "ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know"
John 18:23: "answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the"
John 19:10: "saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not"
Acts 2:4: "Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the"
Acts 2:6: "because that every man heard them speak in his own"
Acts 2:7: "are not all these which speak Galilaeans?"
Acts 2:11: "Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works"
Acts 2:31: "He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his"
Acts 3:21: "of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his"
Acts 3:22: "in all things whatsoever"
Acts 3:22: "in all things whatsoever he shall say"
Acts 3:24: "and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days."
Acts 4:1: "And as they spake unto the people, the priests,"
Acts 4:17: "the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no"
Acts 4:20: "we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and"
Acts 4:29: "servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,"
Acts 4:31: "filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God"
Acts 5:20: "Go, stand and speak in the temple to the"









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