λέγω légō

Meaning

properly, to "lay" forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas G2036 (ἔπω) and G5346 (φημί) generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while G4483 (ῥέω) is properly to break silence merely, and G2980 (λαλέω) means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean

In the King James Version: ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say(-ing, on), shew, speak, tell, utter

Derivation: a primary verb;

Where it is used

• John 8:33 “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
• John 8:34 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
• 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 8:45 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
• John 8:46 Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe 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 8:51 Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”
• 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 8:54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
• John 8:58 “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
• John 9:2 and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
• John 9:8 At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
• John 9:9 Some claimed that he was, but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “I am the one.”
• John 9:10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
• 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 9:16 Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.
• 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 9:19 and asked, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he can now see?”
• 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 10:1 “Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
• John 10:7 So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.
• John 10:20 Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”
• John 10:21 But others replied, “These are not the words of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
• 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 10:33 “We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, make Yourself out to be God.”
• 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 11:3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
• John 11:7 and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
• John 11:8 “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”
• 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 11:13 They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.
• John 11:16 Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
• John 11:23 “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
• John 11:24 Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
• John 11:27 “Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
• John 11:32 When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
• John 11:34 “Where have you put him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.
• John 11:36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”
• John 11:39 “Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”
• John 11:40 Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
• John 11:44 The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
• John 11:47 Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
• John 11:54 As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.
• John 11:56 They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”
• John 12:4 But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray Him, asked,
• John 12:21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
• John 12:22 Philip relayed this appeal to Andrew, and both of them went and told Jesus.
• John 12:23 But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
• John 12:24 Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
• 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 12:33 He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.
• John 12:34 The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
• John 13:6 He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”
• John 13:8 “Never shall You wash my feet!” Peter told Him. Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.”
• John 13:9 “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not only my feet, but my hands and my head as well!”
• John 13:10 Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”
• John 13:13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.
• John 13:16 Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.