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:
1 Timothy 5:18: "For the Scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out"
2 Timothy 2:7: "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee"
2 Timothy 2:18: "the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already;"
Titus 2:8: "having no evil thing to say of you."
Philemon 1:19: "will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me"
Philemon 1:21: "thou wilt also do more than I say."
Hebrews 1:6: "into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God"
Hebrews 1:7: "And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels"
Hebrews 2:6: "one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that"
Hebrews 2:12: " Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst"
Hebrews 3:7: "the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his"
Hebrews 3:15: " While it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not"
Hebrews 4:7: "he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, Today, after"
Hebrews 5:6: "As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest forever"
Hebrews 5:11: "have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull"
Hebrews 6:14: " Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying"
Hebrews 7:11: "of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?"
Hebrews 7:13: "he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of"
Hebrews 7:21: "with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore"
Hebrews 8:1: "Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such a high priest, who"
Hebrews 8:8: "For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith"
Hebrews 8:8: "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new"
Hebrews 8:9: "covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord."
Hebrews 8:10: "after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws"
Hebrews 8:11: "every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for"
Hebrews 8:13: " In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and"
Hebrews 9:2: "table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary."
Hebrews 9:3: "second veil, the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all;"
Hebrews 9:5: "which we cannot now speak particularly."
Hebrews 9:20: " Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God"
Hebrews 10:5: "into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest"
Hebrews 10:8: "Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and"
Hebrews 10:16: "after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws"
Hebrews 10:30: "belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord"
Hebrews 11:14: "For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country."
Hebrews 11:24: "Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;"
Hebrews 11:32: "And what shall I more say? for the time would fail"
Hebrews 12:26: "but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake"
Hebrews 13:6: "So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and"
James 1:13: "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God"
James 2:14: "brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have"
James 2:23: "the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God,"
James 4:5: "that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that"
James 4:6: "more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but"
James 4:13: "Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into"
James 4:15: "For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall"
2 Peter 3:4: "And saying, Where is the promise of his coming?"
1 John 2:4: " He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments,"
1 John 2:6: " He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so"
1 John 2:9: " He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his"
