Strong's #3004: lego (pronounced leg'-o)
a primary verb; properly, to "lay" forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas 2036 and 5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while 4483 is properly to break silence merely, and 2980 means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean:--ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say(-ing, on), shew, speak, tell, utter.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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legō
1) to say, to speak
1a) affirm over, maintain
1b) to teach
1c) to exhort, advise, to command, direct
1d) to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say
1e) to call by name, to call, name
1f) to speak out, speak of, mention
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a root word
Citing in TDNT: 4:69, 505
Usage:
This word is used 1347 times:
Acts 2:13: "Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine."
Acts 2:17: "the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my"
Acts 2:25: "For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord"
Acts 2:34: "heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my"
Acts 2:40: "did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward"
Acts 3:2: "the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms"
Acts 3:25: "with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy"
Acts 4:16: " Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed"
Acts 4:32: "and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed"
Acts 5:23: " Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all"
Acts 5:25: "one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom"
Acts 5:28: " Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in"
Acts 5:36: "days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom"
Acts 5:38: "And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men,"
Acts 6:9: "of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and"
Acts 6:11: "Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous"
Acts 6:13: "set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not"
Acts 6:14: "For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth"
Acts 7:48: "temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,"
Acts 7:49: "what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what"
Acts 7:59: "Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my"
Acts 8:6: "gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the"
Acts 8:9: "the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some"
Acts 8:10: "the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great"
Acts 8:19: " Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever"
Acts 8:26: "spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward"
Acts 8:34: "thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of"
Acts 9:4: "earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why"
Acts 9:21: "that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed"
Acts 9:36: "Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full"
Acts 10:26: "But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also"
Acts 10:28: "God hath showed me that I should not call"
Acts 10:28: "God hath showed me that I should not call"
Acts 11:3: " Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them."
Acts 11:4: "and expounded it by order unto them, saying,"
Acts 11:7: "And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay"
Acts 11:16: "word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water;"
Acts 11:18: "and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also"
Acts 12:7: "on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up"
Acts 12:7: "on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up"
Acts 12:8: "so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about"
Acts 12:15: "that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel."
Acts 13:15: "sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have"
Acts 13:15: "any word of exhortation for the people, say on."
Acts 13:25: "John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am?"
Acts 13:35: "Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine"
Acts 13:45: "with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and"
Acts 14:11: "they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down"
Acts 14:15: "And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also"
Acts 14:18: "And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not"
