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Koine Greek wordlink #70746

SR GNT Yhn 8:55 εἴπω (eipō) ‘have known him and_if I may say that not I have known’ Strongs=30040 Lemma=legō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=aorist voice=active person=1st number=singular
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #70708 Person=Jesus

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Other uses (6) of identical word form εἴπω (V-SAA1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘εἴπω’ (V-SAA1··S) has 2 different glosses: ‘I may say’, ‘I may tell’.

Yhn (Jhn) 3:12 ‘you_all are believing how if I may tell to you_all the heavenly things’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 3:12 word 13

OET-LV: 12 If I _told the earthly things to _you _all, and you _all _are_ not _believing, how you _all _will _be _believing if I _may _tell to _you _all the heavenly things? (JHN_3:12)

OET-RV: 12 If I tell all of you earthly things and you don’t believe them, how will you ever believe if I explain heavenly things to you? (JHN 3:12)

Yhn (Jhn) 12:27 ‘has_been disturbed and what I may say father save me’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 12:27 word 8

OET-LV: 27 Now the soul of _me has _been _disturbed, and what may _I _say: father, save me from the this hour? But because _of this, I _came to the this hour. (JHN_12:27)

OET-RV: 27 Now, I’m very troubled. What else could I say other than, ‘Father, let me avoid what’s coming’? But it was exactly this that I came for. (JHN 12:27)

Yhn (Jhn) 12:49 ‘a command has given what I may say and what I may speak’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 12:49 word 20

OET-LV: 49 Because I spoke not from myself, but the father himself having _sent me to _me has _given a_command, what I _may _say, and what I _may _speak. (JHN_12:49)

OET-RV: 49 because I wasn’t speaking from my own thoughts, but it was the father himself who sent me that told me what to say and what to teach. (JHN 12:49)

Mat 2:13 ‘be there until I may tell to you is going for’ SR GNT Mat 2:13 word 42

OET-LV: 13 And having _withdrawn from _them, see, an_messenger of_the_master is _appearing in a_dream to_ the _Yōsaʸf/(Yōşēf) saying: Having _been _raised, take the little _child and the mother of _him, and be _fleeing into Aiguptos/(Miʦrayim), and be there until wishfully I _may _tell to _you, because/for Haʸrōdaʸs is _going to _be _seeking the little _child which to _destroy him. (MAT_2:13)

OET-RV: 13 After they’d departed, one of Yahweh’s messengers appeared to Yosef in a dream and said, “Get up and take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt (Mitsrayim). Remain there until I tell you, because King Herod will soon search for the child in order to kill him.” (MAT 2:13)

Luke 22:67 ‘to them if to you_all I may tell by_no_means not you_all may believe’ SR GNT Luke 22:67 word 16

OET-LV: 67 saying: If you are the chosen _one /messiah, tell to _us. But he _said to _them: If I _may _tell to _you _all, by _no _means you _all _may_ not _believe, (LUK_22:67)

OET-RV: 67 who demanded, “If you’re the messiah, tell us so.”
¶ “Even if I told you,” he replied, “you certainly wouldn’t believe me, (LUK 22:67)

1 Cor 11:22 ‘not having what I may say to you_all I may praise you_all’ SR GNT 1 Cor 11:22 word 24

OET-LV: 22 For/Because not houses not you _all _are _having in which to _be _eating and to _be _drinking? Or of _the assembly of_ the _god you _all _are _despising, and you _all _are _disgracing the ones not having? What I _may _say to _you _all? I _may _praise you _all in this? Not I _am _praising. (CO1_11:22)

OET-RV: 22 For eating and drinking, don’t you all have your own houses to do that in? Why are you showing contempt for God’s assembly and humiliating those left with nothing? What should I say about that? Should I praise you for that? No, I can’t! (CO1 11:22)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘legō’ have 147 different glosses: ‘am saying’, ‘am speaking’, ‘am telling’, ‘are saying’, ‘are saying it’, ‘be saying’, ‘be speaking it’, ‘be telling’, ‘being called’, ‘being spoken’, ‘had spoken’, ‘has said’, ‘have said’, ‘having said’, ‘having spoken’, ‘having_been said’, ‘having_been spoken’, ‘is calling’, ‘is saying’, ‘is speaking’, ‘is_being called’, ‘is_being said’, ‘let say’, ‘let_be saying’, ‘may say’, ‘may speak’, ‘may_be saying’, ‘they said’, ‘to say’, ‘to speak’, ‘to tell’, ‘to_be calling’, ‘to_be saying’, ‘to_be speaking’, ‘to_be telling’, ‘to_be_being called’, ‘to_be_being said’, ‘to_have said’, ‘was asking’, ‘was saying’, ‘was speaking’, ‘were saying’, ‘were speaking’, ‘were spoken’, ‘will_be saying’, ‘will_be telling’, ‘I am asking’, ‘I am calling’, ‘I am saying’, ‘I am speaking’, ‘I am telling’, ‘I am telling you’, ‘I have called’, ‘I have said’, ‘I have told’, ‘I may say’, ‘I may tell’, ‘I may_be saying’, ‘I was saying’, ‘I was telling’, ‘I will_be saying’, ‘I will_be speaking’, ‘I will_be telling’, ‘I said’, ‘I said it’, ‘I spoke’, ‘I told’, ‘he had said’, ‘he had spoken’, ‘he has said’, ‘he has spoken’, ‘he having said’, ‘he is calling’, ‘he is saying’, ‘he is speaking’, ‘he is telling’, ‘he may say’, ‘he may_be saying’, ‘he was calling’, ‘he was saying’, ‘he was speaking’, ‘he will_be saying’, ‘he will_be speaking’, ‘he called’, ‘he said’, ‘he spoke’, ‘he told’, ‘him let say’, ‘it has_been said’, ‘it is saying’, ‘it was said’, ‘she is saying’, ‘she was saying’, ‘she said’, ‘they are calling’, ‘they are saying’, ‘they are speaking’, ‘they are telling’, ‘they have said’, ‘they may say’, ‘they may tell’, ‘they may_be saying’, ‘they may_be telling’, ‘they were saying’, ‘they will_be saying’, ‘they said’, ‘they spoke’, ‘we are saying’, ‘we may call’, ‘we may say’, ‘we may_be saying’, ‘we will_be saying’, ‘who were telling’, ‘you are calling’, ‘you are saying’, ‘you are speaking’, ‘you are telling’, ‘you have spoken’, ‘you may say’, ‘you may speak’, ‘you may tell’, ‘you will_be saying’, ‘you will_be speaking’, ‘you said’, ‘you spoke’, ‘you_all are calling’, ‘you_all are saying’, ‘you_all are speaking’, ‘you_all have spoken’, ‘you_all may say’, ‘you_all may tell’, ‘you_all may_be speaking’, ‘you_all were saying’, ‘you_all will_be saying’, ‘you_all said’, ‘calling’, ‘said’, ‘said it’, ‘say’, ‘say it’, ‘saying’, ‘speak’, ‘speaking’, ‘spoke’, ‘tell’, ‘telling’, ‘told’.

Key: V=verb