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:
Romans 3:19: "the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law:"
Romans 7:1: "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the"
Romans 15:18: "For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not"
1 Corinthians 2:6: "Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom"
1 Corinthians 2:7: "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden"
1 Corinthians 2:13: "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom"
1 Corinthians 3:1: "brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but"
1 Corinthians 9:8: " Say I these things as a man? or saith not"
1 Corinthians 12:3: "I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God"
1 Corinthians 12:30: "of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?"
1 Corinthians 13:1: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and"
1 Corinthians 13:11: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as"
1 Corinthians 14:2: "For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God:"
1 Corinthians 14:2: "For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God:"
1 Corinthians 14:2: "understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries."
1 Corinthians 14:3: "But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and"
1 Corinthians 14:4: " He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church."
1 Corinthians 14:5: "would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that"
1 Corinthians 14:5: "greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh, with tongues, except he interpret,"
1 Corinthians 14:6: "I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you,"
1 Corinthians 14:6: "shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation,"
1 Corinthians 14:9: "easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into"
1 Corinthians 14:9: "shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air."
1 Corinthians 14:11: "of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian"
1 Corinthians 14:11: "unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me."
1 Corinthians 14:13: "Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret."
1 Corinthians 14:18: "I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:"
1 Corinthians 14:19: "in the church I had rather speak five words with my"
1 Corinthians 14:21: "and other lips will I speak unto this people; and"
1 Corinthians 14:23: "one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned,"
1 Corinthians 14:27: "If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the"
1 Corinthians 14:28: "in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God."
1 Corinthians 14:29: "Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the"
1 Corinthians 14:34: "it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also"
1 Corinthians 14:35: "it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
1 Corinthians 14:39: "and forbid not to speak with tongues."
2 Corinthians 2:17: "God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ."
2 Corinthians 4:13: "I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and"
2 Corinthians 4:13: "believe, and therefore speak;"
2 Corinthians 7:14: "you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you"
2 Corinthians 11:17: "That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were"
2 Corinthians 11:17: "That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were"
2 Corinthians 11:23: "Are they ministers of Christ? I (speak as a fool) I am more; in"
2 Corinthians 12:4: "which it is not lawful for a man to utter."
2 Corinthians 12:19: "ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ:"
2 Corinthians 13:3: "ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to"
Ephesians 4:25: "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his"
Ephesians 5:19: " Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,"
Ephesians 6:20: "I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak."
Philippians 1:14: "by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear."
