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Koine Greek wordlink #44661

SR GNT Luke 7:24 λέγειν (legein) ‘messengers of Yōannaʸs he began to_be saying to the crowds’ Strongs=30040 Lemma=legō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=active

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Other uses (39) of identical word form λέγειν (V-NPA....) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘λέγειν’ (V-NPA....) has 4 different glosses: ‘to_be calling’, ‘to_be saying’, ‘to_be speaking’, ‘to_be telling’.

Yhn (Jhn) 16:12 ‘many things I am having to you_all to_be saying but not you_all are being_able’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 16:12 word 6

Mark 9:26 ‘dead so_that many to_be saying that he died_off’ SR GNT Mark 9:26 word 20

Mark 10:28 ‘began to_be saying Petros to him see’ SR GNT Mark 10:28 word 4

Mark 10:32 ‘twelve he began to them to_be telling the things going to him’ SR GNT Mark 10:32 word 31

Mark 10:47 ‘he began to_be crying_out and to_be saying son of Dawid/(Dāvid) Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa)’ SR GNT Mark 10:47 word 14

Mark 13:5 ‘and Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) began to_be saying to them be watching_out lest’ SR GNT Mark 13:5 word 8

Mark 14:19 ‘they began to_be_being sorrowed and to_be saying to him one by’ SR GNT Mark 14:19 word 7

Mark 14:65 ‘to_be beating him and to_be saying to him prophesy and’ SR GNT Mark 14:65 word 19

Mark 14:69 ‘him began again to_be saying to the ones having stood_by he’ SR GNT Mark 14:69 word 17

Mat 3:9 ‘and not you_all may suppose to_be saying among yourselves father’ SR GNT Mat 3:9 word 4

Mat 4:17 ‘Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) to_be proclaiming and to_be saying be repenting has neared for’ SR GNT Mat 4:17 word 9

Mat 11:7 ‘going began Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) to_be saying to the crowds concerning’ SR GNT Mat 11:7 word 7

Mat 13:54 ‘to_be_being astonished them and to_be saying from_where to this man wisdom’ SR GNT Mat 13:54 word 19

Mat 26:22 ‘being sorrowed exceedingly they began to_be saying to him one each’ SR GNT Mat 26:22 word 5

Luke 3:8 ‘and not you_all may begin to_be saying in yourselves as father’ SR GNT Luke 3:8 word 13

Luke 4:21 ‘he began and to_be saying to them today’ SR GNT Luke 4:21 word 3

Luke 6:42 ‘how you are being_able to_be saying to the brother of you’ SR GNT Luke 6:42 word 5

Luke 7:49 ‘began the ones reclining to_be saying by themselves who’ SR GNT Luke 7:49 word 5

Luke 9:21 ‘to them commanded them to no_one to_be telling this’ SR GNT Luke 9:21 word 8

Luke 11:27 ‘and at the time to_be saying him these things having lifted_up’ SR GNT Luke 11:27 word 5

Luke 11:29 ‘crowds being increased he began to_be saying generation this generation’ SR GNT Luke 11:29 word 6

Luke 12:1 ‘to_be trampling one_another he began to_be saying to the apprentices/followers’ SR GNT Luke 12:1 word 21

Luke 13:26 ‘then you will_be beginning to_be saying we ate before of you’ SR GNT Luke 13:26 word 4

Luke 20:9 ‘to the people to_be speaking parable this a man’ SR GNT Luke 20:9 word 6

Luke 23:30 ‘then they will_be beginning to_be saying to the mountains fall’ SR GNT Luke 23:30 word 4

Acts 10:28 ‘common or unclean to_be calling a person’ SR GNT Acts 10:28 word 33

Acts 17:18 ‘might_be wanting babbler this to_be saying the others but of strange’ SR GNT Acts 17:18 word 23

Acts 17:21 ‘other thing were having_opportunity than to_be telling something or to_be hearing’ SR GNT Acts 17:21 word 16

Acts 23:30 ‘also to the accusers to_be speaking them before you’ SR GNT Acts 23:30 word 23

Acts 24:10 ‘to him the governor to_be speaking for many years’ SR GNT Acts 24:10 word 10

Acts 26:1 ‘to you concerning yourself to_be speaking then Paulos having stretched_out’ SR GNT Acts 26:1 word 12

Rom 3:8 ‘are saying some us to_be saying we may practice evil in_order_that’ SR GNT Rom 3:8 word 10

Eph 5:12 ‘shameful it is even to_be speaking’ SR GNT Eph 5:12 word 11

Tit 2:8 ‘may_be swayed nothing having to_be saying concerning us bad’ SR GNT Tit 2:8 word 12

Heb 5:11 ‘speech and hard_to_explain to_be speaking because sluggish you_all have become’ SR GNT Heb 5:11 word 9

Heb 8:13 ‘in that to_be saying new he has grown_old the’ SR GNT Heb 8:13 word 3

Heb 9:5 ‘not it is now to_be speaking in part’ SR GNT Heb 9:5 word 17

Heb 13:6 ‘so_as having_confidence us to_be saying the master is to me helper’ SR GNT Heb 13:6 word 5

Yac (Jam) 4:15 ‘instead_of that to_be saying you_all ought if the’ SR GNT Yac (Jam) 4:15 word 3

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 NPA....=infinitive,present,active