Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon
λέγω (G4483)
2335 λέγω , [in LXX very freq., chiefly for אמר ; λέγει for נְאֻם , Ge 22:16 , al.;] in Hom., to pick out , gather , reckon , recount . In Hdt. and Att., to say , speak , affirm , declare : absol., Ac 13:15 24:10 ; seq. orat. dir., Mt 9:34 , Mk 3:11 , Jo 1:29 , al.; seq. ὅτι recit., Mk 3:21 , Lk 1:24 , Jo 6:14 , al.; acc. et. inf., Lk 11:18 , Jo 12:29 , al.; after another verb of speaking, προσφωνεῖν κ. λέγειν , Mt 11:17 , al.; ἀπεκρίθη ( ἐλάλησεν ) λέγων ( καὶ λέγει ; Dalman, Words , 24 ff.), Mt 25:9 , Mk 3:33 , 7:28 , Lk 24:6 , 7 , al.; of unspoken thought, λ. ἐν ἑαυτῷ , Mt 3:9 , Lk 3:8 , al.; of writing, II Co 8:8 , Phl 4:11 , al.; λέγει ἡ γραφή , Ro 4:3 , Ja 2:23 , al.; c. acc. rei, Lk 8:8 9:33 , Jo 5:34 , al.; σὺ λέγεις (a non-committal phrase; Swete, Mk. , 359, 369 f.), Mt 27:11 , Mk 15:2 , Lk 23:3 , Jo 18:37 ; c. dat. pers., seq. orat. dir., Mt 8:20 , Mk 2:17 , al. mult.; id. seq. ὅτι , Mt 3:9 , al.; c. prep., πρός , μετά , περί , etc., Mk 4:41 , Jo 11:56 , He 9:5 , al.; to mean (cl.), Mk 14:71 , Jo 6:71 , I Co 10:29 , al.; to call , name , Mk 10:18 ; pass., Mt 9:9 , Mk 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, s.v. λαλέω ).
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