λαλέω laléō

Greek · Strong's G2980 · used 298 times in 274 verses

Meaning

to talk, i.e. utter words

In the King James Version: preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter

Derivation: a prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb;

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Where it is used

Luke 9:11 But the crowds found out and followed Him. He welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and He healed those who needed healing.
Luke 11:14 One day Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. And when the demon was gone, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed,
Luke 11:37 As Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee invited Him to dine with him; so He went in and reclined at the table.
Luke 12:3 What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
Luke 22:47 While He was still speaking, a crowd arrived, led by the man called Judas, one of the Twelve. He approached Jesus to kiss Him.
Luke 22:60 “Man, I do not know what you are talking about,” Peter replied. And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.
Luke 24:6 He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:
Luke 24:25 Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Luke 24:32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
Luke 24:36 While they were describing these events, Jesus Himself stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”
Luke 24:44 Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
John 1:37 And when the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
John 3:11 Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.
John 3:31 The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is above all.
John 3:34 For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
John 4:26 Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”
John 4:27 Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”
John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
John 7:13 Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.
John 7:17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
John 7:18 He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.
John 7:26 Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?
John 7:46 “Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.
John 8:12 Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:20 He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
John 8:25 “Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
John 8:26 “I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”
John 8:28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
John 8:30 As Jesus spoke these things, many believed in Him.
John 8:38 I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
John 8:40 But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 9:21 But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
John 9:29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”
John 9:37 “You have already seen Him,” Jesus answered. “He is the One speaking with you.”
John 10:6 Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
John 12:29 The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.
John 12:36 While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.
John 12:41 Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.
John 12:48 There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
John 12:49 I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
John 12:50 And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.
John 14:25 All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you.
John 14:30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
John 15:3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
John 15:11 I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
John 15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
John 16:1 “I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.
John 16:4 But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
John 16:6 Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things.
John 16:13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
John 16:18 They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”
John 16:25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
John 16:29 His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.
John 16:33 I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
John 17:1 When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
John 17:13 But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.
John 18:20 “I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.
John 18:21 Why are you asking Me? Ask those who heard My message. Surely they know what I said.”