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Koine Greek wordlink #136303

SR GNT 2 Th 2:5 ἔλεγον (elegon) ‘with you_all these things I was saying to you_all’ Strongs=30040 Lemma=legō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=imperfect voice=active person=1st number=singular
Year=54 AD Refers to Word #135943 Person=Paul

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Other uses (3) of identical word form ἔλεγον (V-IIA1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔλεγον’ (V-IIA1··S) has 3 different glosses: ‘was asking’, ‘I was saying’, ‘I was telling’.

Acts 25:20 ‘concerning these things debate was asking if might_be wishing to_be going’ SR GNT Acts 25:20 word 10

OET-LV: 20 And I perplexing, the debate concerning these things, was _asking if might _be _wishing to _be _going to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim), and _there to _be _being _judged concerning these things. (ACT_25:20)

OET-RV: 20 I was puzzled about this debate and asked him if he wanted to be judged about these things in Yerushalem. (ACT 25:20)

2 Cor 9:3 ‘this in_order_that as I was saying having prepared you_all may_be’ SR GNT 2 Cor 9:3 word 21

OET-LV: 3 But I _sent the brothers, in _order _that not the boast of _us, which is about you _all, may _be _voided in the regard this, in _order _that as I _was _saying, having _prepared you _all _may _be. (CO2_9:3)

OET-RV: 3 But I sent the brothers so that our boasting about you all won’t be invalidated in this regard, so that you’ll be prepared just as I had told them. (CO2 9:3)

Php 3:18 ‘are walking of whom often I was telling to you_all now and’ SR GNT Php 3:18 word 6

OET-LV: 18 For/Because many are _walking, of _whom often I _was _telling to _you _all, and now even weeping, I _am _telling you, the enemies of _the stake of _the chosen _one /messiah, (PHP_3:18)

OET-RV: 18 As I’ve often told you before and now say it again with tears, there are many who are against the stake of the messiah (PHP 3:18)

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