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Koine Greek wordlink #54388

SR GNT Luke 16:5 ἔλεγεν (elegen) ‘of the master of himself he was saying to the first how_much’ Strongs=30040 Lemma=legō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=imperfect voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Refers to Word #54341

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Other uses (70) of identical word form ἔλεγεν (V-IIA3..S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔλεγεν’ (V-IIA3..S) has 6 different glosses: ‘was saying’, ‘was speaking’, ‘he was calling’, ‘he was saying’, ‘he was speaking’, ‘she was saying’.

Yhn (Jhn) 2:21 ‘that one but was speaking concerning the temple’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 2:21 word 4

Yhn (Jhn) 2:22 ‘of him that this he was saying and they believed in the’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 2:22 word 14

Yhn (Jhn) 5:18 ‘also father his own he was calling god equal himself’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 5:18 word 23

Yhn (Jhn) 5:19 ‘therefore Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) and was saying to them truly truly’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 5:19 word 8

Yhn (Jhn) 6:6 ‘this and he was saying testing him he’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 6:6 word 4

Yhn (Jhn) 6:65 ‘and he was saying because_of this I have said’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 6:65 word 2

Yhn (Jhn) 6:71 ‘he was speaking and to Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) of Simōn’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 6:71 word 1

Yhn (Jhn) 8:23 ‘and he was saying to them you_all from’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 8:23 word 3

Yhn (Jhn) 8:27 ‘about the father to them he was speaking’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 8:27 word 8

Yhn (Jhn) 8:31 ‘was saying therefore Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) to’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 8:31 word 1

Yhn (Jhn) 9:9 ‘to him he is that one was saying I am he’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 9:9 word 18

Yhn (Jhn) 12:29 ‘having stood and having heard was saying thunder to_have become others’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 12:29 word 10

Yhn (Jhn) 12:33 ‘this but he was saying signifying by what death’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 12:33 word 4

Mark 2:27 ‘and he was saying to them the day_of_rest’ SR GNT Mark 2:27 word 2

Mark 3:23 ‘them in parables he was saying to them how is able’ SR GNT Mark 3:23 word 8

Mark 4:2 ‘parables many things and was saying to them in the’ SR GNT Mark 4:2 word 10

Mark 4:9 ‘and he was saying who is having ears’ SR GNT Mark 4:9 word 2

Mark 4:11 ‘and he was saying to them to you_all the’ SR GNT Mark 4:11 word 2

Mark 4:21 ‘and he was saying to them surely_not is coming’ SR GNT Mark 4:21 word 2

Mark 4:24 ‘and he was saying to them be watching_out what’ SR GNT Mark 4:24 word 2

Mark 4:26 ‘and he was saying thus is the’ SR GNT Mark 4:26 word 2

Mark 4:30 ‘and he was saying how we may liken the’ SR GNT Mark 4:30 word 2

Mark 5:8 ‘he was saying for to him come_out’ SR GNT Mark 5:8 word 2

Mark 5:28 ‘she was saying for if I may touch’ SR GNT Mark 5:28 word 1

Mark 5:30 ‘in the crowd he was saying who of me touched’ SR GNT Mark 5:30 word 23

Mark 6:4 ‘and was saying to them Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) not’ SR GNT Mark 6:4 word 2

Mark 6:10 ‘and he was saying to them wherever you_all may come_in’ SR GNT Mark 6:10 word 2

Mark 6:14 ‘name of him and he was saying Yōannaʸs the one immersing’ SR GNT Mark 6:14 word 14

Mark 6:16 ‘having heard but Haʸrōdaʸs was saying whom I beheaded’ SR GNT Mark 6:16 word 6

Mark 6:18 ‘was saying for Yōannaʸs to Haʸrōdaʸs’ SR GNT Mark 6:18 word 1

Mark 7:9 ‘and he was saying to them well you_all are rejecting’ SR GNT Mark 7:9 word 2

Mark 7:14 ‘again the crowd he was saying to them be hearing from me’ SR GNT Mark 7:14 word 7

Mark 7:20 ‘he was saying and the thing out_of’ SR GNT Mark 7:20 word 1

Mark 7:27 ‘and he was saying to her allow first’ SR GNT Mark 7:27 word 7

Mark 8:21 ‘and he was saying to them how not_yet’ SR GNT Mark 8:21 word 2

Mark 8:24 ‘and having looked_up he was saying I am seeing the people’ SR GNT Mark 8:24 word 5

Mark 9:1 ‘and he was saying to them truly I am saying’ SR GNT Mark 9:1 word 2

Mark 9:24 ‘father of the little_child was saying I am believing be giving_help of me’ SR GNT Mark 9:24 word 14

Mark 9:31 ‘apprentices/followers of him and was saying to them the son’ SR GNT Mark 9:31 word 7

Mark 11:17 ‘and he was teaching and was saying to them not it has_been written’ SR GNT Mark 11:17 word 5

Mark 12:35 ‘and answering Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) was saying teaching in the’ SR GNT Mark 12:35 word 5

Mark 12:38 ‘the teaching of him he was saying be watching_out of the’ SR GNT Mark 12:38 word 12

Mark 14:36 ‘and he was saying father father all things’ SR GNT Mark 14:36 word 2

Mark 15:12 ‘Pilatos again answering was saying to them what therefore’ SR GNT Mark 15:12 word 8

Mark 15:14 ‘and Pilatos was saying to them what for’ SR GNT Mark 15:14 word 4

Mat 9:21 ‘she was saying for in herself’ SR GNT Mat 9:21 word 1

Mat 9:24 ‘he was saying be withdrawing not for’ SR GNT Mat 9:24 word 2

Mat 14:4 ‘was saying for to him Yōannaʸs’ SR GNT Mat 14:4 word 1

Luke 3:7 ‘he was saying therefore to the going_out’ SR GNT Luke 3:7 word 1

Luke 3:11 ‘answering and he was saying to them the one having’ SR GNT Luke 3:11 word 5

Luke 5:36 ‘he was speaking and also a parable’ SR GNT Luke 5:36 word 1

Luke 6:5 ‘and he was saying to them master is’ SR GNT Luke 6:5 word 2

Luke 6:20 ‘the apprentices/followers of him was saying blessed are the poor’ SR GNT Luke 6:20 word 13

Luke 9:23 ‘he was saying and to all’ SR GNT Luke 9:23 word 1

Luke 10:2 ‘he was saying but to them’ SR GNT Luke 10:2 word 1

Luke 12:54 ‘he was saying and also to the’ SR GNT Luke 12:54 word 1

Luke 13:6 ‘he was speaking and this parable’ SR GNT Luke 13:6 word 1

Luke 13:14 ‘day_of_rest healed Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) he was saying to the crowd because’ SR GNT Luke 13:14 word 12

Luke 13:18 ‘he was saying therefore to what similar’ SR GNT Luke 13:18 word 1

Luke 14:7 ‘he was speaking and to the ones’ SR GNT Luke 14:7 word 1

Luke 14:12 ‘he was saying and also to the one’ SR GNT Luke 14:12 word 1

Luke 16:1 ‘he was saying and also to’ SR GNT Luke 16:1 word 1

Luke 18:1 ‘he was speaking and a parable to them’ SR GNT Luke 18:1 word 1

Luke 21:10 ‘then he was saying to them will_be_being raised nation’ SR GNT Luke 21:10 word 2

Luke 23:42 ‘and he was saying Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) be reminded of me’ SR GNT Luke 23:42 word 7

Acts 4:32 ‘of the things possessing to him was saying his own to_be but’ SR GNT Acts 4:32 word 31

Acts 11:16 ‘of the master how he was saying Yōannaʸs on_one_hand immersed’ SR GNT Acts 11:16 word 9

Acts 13:25 ‘Yōannaʸs the course he was saying what me you_all are suspecting’ SR GNT Acts 13:25 word 9

Acts 28:17 ‘having come_together and them he was saying to them I’ SR GNT Acts 28:17 word 18

Rom 7:7 ‘except the law was saying not you will_be coveting’ SR GNT Rom 7:7 word 29

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 IIA3..S=indicative,imperfect,active,3rd person singular