λέγω, [in LXX very freq., chiefly for אמר; λέγει for נְאֻם, Rdz 22,16, al. ;] 1. in Hom., to pick out, gather, reckon, recount. 2. In Hdt. and Att., to say, speak, affirm, declare: absol., Dz 13,15; 24,10; before orat. dir., Mt 9,34, Mk 3,11, J 1,29, al.; before ὅτι recit., Mk 3,21, Łk 1,24, J 6,14, al.; accusative and inf., Łk 11,18, J 12,29, al.; after another verb of speaking, προσφωνεῖν κ. λέγειν, Mt 11,17, al.; ἀπεκρίθη (ἐλάλησεν) λέγων (καὶ λέγει; Dalman, Words, 24 ff.), Mt 25,9, Mk 3,33; 7,28, Łk 24,6, 7, al.; of unspoken thought, λ. ἐν ἑαυτῷ, Mt 3,9, Łk 3,8, al.; of writing, 2 Kor 8,8, Flp 4,11, al.; λέγει ἡ γραφή, Rz 4,3, Jk 2,23, al.; with accusative of thing(s), Łk 8,8; 9,33, J 5,34, al.; σὺ λέγεις (a non-committal phrase; Swete, Mk., 359, 369f.), Mt 27,11, Mk 15,2, Łk 23,3, J 18,37; with dative of person(s), before orat. dir., Mt 8,20, Mk 2,17, al. mult.; id. before ὅτι, Mt 3,9, al.; with prep., πρός, μετά, περί, etc., Mk 4,41, J 11,56, Hbr 9,5, al.; to mean (cl.), Mk 14,71, J 6,71, 1 Kor 10,29, al.; to call, name, Mk 10,18 pass., Mt 9,9, Mk 15,7, al (cf. ἀντι-, δια- (-μαι), προ-, συλ-λέγω). SYN.: λαλέω, which refers to the utterance, as λέγω to the meaning of what is said, its correspondence with thought (Tr., Syn., Ixxvi; Thayer, see word λαλέω). (AS)