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:
́
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:
Colossians 4:3: "unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for"
Colossians 4:4: "I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak."
1 Thessalonians 1:8: "we need not to speak any thing."
1 Thessalonians 2:2: "in our God to speak unto you the gospel"
1 Thessalonians 2:4: "with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men,"
1 Thessalonians 2:16: "Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up"
1 Timothy 5:13: "tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not."
Titus 2:1: "But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:"
Titus 2:15: "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all"
Hebrews 1:1: "who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by"
Hebrews 1:2: "these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom"
Hebrews 2:2: "if the word spoken by angels was steadfast,"
Hebrews 2:3: "salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord,"
Hebrews 2:5: "world to come, whereof we speak."
Hebrews 3:5: "a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;"
Hebrews 4:8: "had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another"
Hebrews 5:5: "to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art"
Hebrews 6:9: "salvation, though we thus speak."
Hebrews 7:14: "which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood."
Hebrews 9:19: "For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the"
Hebrews 11:4: "it he being dead yet speaketh."
Hebrews 11:18: "Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed"
Hebrews 12:24: "and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."
Hebrews 12:25: "See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped"
Hebrews 13:7: "them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God:"
James 1:19: "swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"
James 2:12: "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged"
James 5:10: "the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example"
1 Peter 3:10: "and his lips that they speak no guile:"
1 Peter 4:11: "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as"
2 Peter 1:21: "holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
2 Peter 3:16: "in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things;"
1 John 4:5: "the world: therefore speak they of the world,"
2 John 1:12: "unto you, and speak face to face, that"
3 John 1:14: "see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace"
Jude 1:15: "speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
Jude 1:16: "and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of"
Revelation 1:12: "the voice that spake with me. And being turned,"
Revelation 4:1: "I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up"
Revelation 10:3: "he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices."
Revelation 10:4: "the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write:"
Revelation 10:4: "the seven thunders uttered, and write them not."
Revelation 10:8: "I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and"
Revelation 13:5: "there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and"
Revelation 13:11: "like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon."
Revelation 13:15: "image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as"
Revelation 17:1: "seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me,"
Revelation 21:9: "last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither,"
Revelation 21:15: "And he that talked with me had a golden reed to"
