ἔπω épō

Meaning

to speak or say (by word or writing)

In the King James Version: answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak, tell

Derivation: a primary verb (used only in the definite past tense, the others being borrowed from G2046 (ἐρέω), G4483 (ῥέω), and G5346 (φημί));

Where it is used

• John 8:39 “Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.
• John 8:41 You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
• John 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
• John 8:48 The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”
• John 8:52 “Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.
• John 8:55 You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
• John 8:57 Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?”
• John 8:58 “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
• John 9:6 When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
• John 9:7 Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
• John 9:11 He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”
• John 9:12 “Where is He?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.
• John 9:15 So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
• John 9:17 So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.
• John 9:20 His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.
• John 9:22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
• John 9:23 That was why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”
• John 9:24 So a second time they called for the man who had been blind and said, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”
• John 9:25 He answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. There is one thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!”
• John 9:26 “What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?”
• John 9:27 He replied, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”
• John 9:28 Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
• John 9:30 “That is remarkable indeed!” the man said. “You do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.
• John 9:34 They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.
• John 9:35 When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, He found the man and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
• John 9:36 “Who is He, Sir?” he replied. “Tell me so that I may believe in Him.”
• John 9:37 “You have already seen Him,” Jesus answered. “He is the One speaking with you.”
• John 9:39 Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
• John 9:40 Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”
• John 9:41 “If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”
• John 10:6 Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
• John 10:7 So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.
• John 10:24 So the Jews gathered around Him and demanded, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
• John 10:25 “I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf.
• John 10:26 But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.
• John 10:34 Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?
• John 10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
• John 10:36 then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?
• John 10:41 Many came to Him and said, “Although John never performed a sign, everything he said about this man was true.”
• John 11:4 When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
• John 11:11 After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”
• John 11:12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”
• John 11:13 They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.
• John 11:14 So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,
• John 11:16 Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
• John 11:21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
• John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
• John 11:28 After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”
• John 11:34 “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.
• John 11:37 But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”
• John 11:40 Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
• John 11:41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
• John 11:42 I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”
• John 11:43 After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
• John 11:46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
• John 11:49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
• John 11:51 Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
• John 12:6 Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.
• John 12:7 “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.
• John 12:19 Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!”