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 28:6: "no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was"
Acts 28:17: "called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together,"
Acts 28:24: "And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not."
Acts 28:26: " Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing"
Romans 2:22: " Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?"
Romans 3:5: "unrighteous who taketh vengeance? I (speak as a man)"
Romans 3:8: "some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good"
Romans 3:19: "what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the"
Romans 4:3: "For what saith the Scripture? Abraham believed"
Romans 4:6: "Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man,"
Romans 4:9: "uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham"
Romans 6:19: " I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for"
Romans 7:7: "lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."
Romans 9:1: " I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience"
Romans 9:15: "For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and"
Romans 9:17: "For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose"
Romans 9:25: "As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them my people,"
Romans 10:6: "righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in"
Romans 10:8: "But what saith it? The word is nigh thee,"
Romans 10:11: "For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him"
Romans 10:16: "gospel. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our"
Romans 10:18: "But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went"
Romans 10:19: "But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith,"
Romans 10:19: "know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by"
Romans 10:20: "Isaiah is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not;"
Romans 10:21: "But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my"
Romans 11:1: " I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid."
Romans 11:2: "ye not what the Scripture saith of Elijah? how"
Romans 11:2: "he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,"
Romans 11:4: "But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself"
Romans 11:9: "And David saith, Let their table be made a snare,"
Romans 11:11: " I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid:"
Romans 11:13: "For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I"
Romans 12:3: "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man"
Romans 12:19: "is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."
Romans 14:11: "it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee"
Romans 15:8: "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for"
Romans 15:10: "And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people."
Romans 15:12: "And again, Isaiah saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and"
1 Corinthians 1:10: "Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be"
1 Corinthians 1:12: "Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I"
1 Corinthians 1:12: "that every one of you saith, I am of Paul;"
1 Corinthians 3:4: "For while one saith, I am of Paul;"
1 Corinthians 6:5: " I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man"
1 Corinthians 7:6: "But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment."
1 Corinthians 7:8: " I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good"
1 Corinthians 7:12: "But to the rest speak I, not the Lord:"
1 Corinthians 7:35: "And this I speak for your own profit; not"
1 Corinthians 8:5: "For though there be that are called gods, whether in"
1 Corinthians 9:8: "I these things as a man? or saith not the law"
