λέγω

G3004G G:V

to say

λέγω , [in LXX very freq., chiefly for אמר; λέγει for נְאֻם, Gen.22:16 , al. ;] __1. in Hom., to pick out, gather, reckon, recount . __2. In Hdt. and Att., to say, speak, affirm, declare : absol., Act.13:15, 24:10 ; before orat. dir., Mat.9:34 , Mrk.3:11 , Jhn.1:29 , al.; before ὅτι recit., Mrk.3:21 , Luk.1:24 , Jhn.6:14 , al.; accusative and inf., Luk.11:18 , Jhn.12:29 , al.; after another verb of speaking, προσφωνεῖν κ. λέγειν, Mat.11:17 , al.; ἀπεκρίθη (ἐλάλησεν) λέγων (καὶ λέγει; Dalman, Words , 24 ff.), Mat.25:9 , Mrk.3:33, 7:28 , Luk.24:6 , 7, al.; of unspoken thought, λ. ἐν ἑαυτῷ, Mat.3:9 , Luk.3:8 , al.; of writing, 2Co.8:8 , Php.4:11 , al.; λέγει ἡ γραφή, Rom.4:3 , Jas.2:23 , al.; with accusative of thing(s), Luk.8:8, 9:33 , Jhn.5:34 , al.; σὺ λέγεις (a non-committal phrase; Swete, Mk. , 359, 369f.), Mat.27:11 , Mrk.15:2 , Luk.23:3 , Jhn.18:37 ; with dative of person(s), before orat. dir., Mat.8:20 , Mrk.2:17 , al. mult.; id. before ὅτι, Mat.3:9 , al.; with prep., πρός, μετά, περί, etc., Mrk.4:41 , Jhn.11:56 , Heb.9:5 , al.; to mean (cl.), Mrk.14:71 , Jhn.6:71 , 1Co.10:29 , al.; to call, name , Mrk.10:18; pass., Mat.9:9 , Mrk.15:7 , al (cf. ἀντι-, δια- (-μαι), προ-, συλ-λέγω). SYN. : λαλέω, which refers to the utterance, as λέγω to the meaning of what is said, its correspondence with thought (Tr., Syn. , Ixxvi; Thayer, see word λαλέω). (AS)