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Notes: It is not always possible to determine from the context whether the act involved is an initial naming of a person or simply calling a person by a particular name. Likewise in the case of attributions or titles, it is not always possible to determine whether it is a matter of giving an attribution or title to a person or simply a matter of speaking of or to a person by means of such an attribution or title. In some instances the giving of a title may be made indirect. For example, in RV MAT 1:23 · LV MAT 1:23 · Read together MAT 1:23 the statement ‘and they will call his name Emmanuel’ suggests the giving of a title, but the process is stated in terms of how people will speak of this person.

JHN 15:15: RV JHN 15:15 · LV JHN 15:15 · Read together JHN 15:15

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OET-RV JHN 15:15

15 I’m not calling you slaves, because a slave doesn’t know his master’s plans, but I’m calling you friends because I’ve told you everything that I heard from my father.

OET-LV JHN 15:15

15 I _am_ no _longer _calling you _all slaves, because the slave has_ not _known what the master of _him is _doing.
But you _all I _have _called friends, because I _made _known to _you _all all things what I _heard from the father of _me.

Sense 3: to mean, to imply

Semantic entry: 33.140

Semantic domains: Communication

Subdomains: Interpret, Mean, Explain

Definition: to say something in order to explain more fully the implications or intent of what has been said

ROM 4:1: RV ROM 4:1 · LV ROM 4:1 · Read together ROM 4:1

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OET-RV ROM 4:1

4 So what did our physical ancestor, Avraham, discover about all this?

OET-LV ROM 4:1

4 Therefore what we _will _be _saying, to _have _found Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) the forefather of _us according _to the_flesh?

ROM 6:1: RV ROM 6:1 · LV ROM 6:1 · Read together ROM 6:1

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6 So should we continue disobeying so that more of God’s generosity will be displayed?

OET-LV ROM 6:1

6 Therefore what we _will _be _saying?
We _may _be _continuing _on the in _sin, in _order _that the grace may _be _plentiful?

Sense 4: to think to oneself, to say to oneself (often used to introduce a direct quotation of one’s thoughts).

Semantic entry: 31.5

Semantic domains: Hold a View, Believe, Trust

Subdomains: Have an Opinion, Hold a View

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to speak to oneself) to think about something without communicating the content to others

Collocations: εἶπον ἐν ἑαυτῷ

MAT 9:3: RV MAT 9:3 · LV MAT 9:3 · Read together MAT 9:3

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OET-RV MAT 9:3

3 Immediately some of the religious teachers said among themselves, “This man’s claiming God’s authority.”

OET-LV MAT 9:3

3 And see, some of _the scribes said among themselves:
This man is _slandering.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

εἶπον

Form 1

Sense 1: to say, to talk, to tell, to speak

Sense 2: to call, to name

Sense 3: to mean, to imply

Sense 4: to think to oneself, to say to oneself (often used to introduce a direct quotation of one’s thoughts).