ἐρῶ

λέγω,

[in LXX very freq., chiefly for אמר; λέγει for נְאֻם, 1 Mos 22,16, al. ;]

1. in Hom., to pick out, gather, reckon, recount.

2. In Hdt. and Att., to say, speak, affirm, declare: absol., ApG 13,15; 24,10; before orat. dir., Matt 9,34, Mark 3,11, Joh 1,29, al.; before ὅτι recit., Mark 3,21, Luk 1,24, Joh 6,14, al.; accusative and inf., Luk 11,18, Joh 12,29, al.; after another verb of speaking, προσφωνεῖν κ. λέγειν, Matt 11,17, al.; ἀπεκρίθη (ἐλάλησεν) λέγων (καὶ λέγει; Dalman, Words, 24 ff.), Matt 25,9, Mark 3,33; 7,28, Luk 24,6, 7, al.; of unspoken thought, λ. ἐν ἑαυτῷ, Matt 3,9, Luk 3,8, al.; of writing, 2 Kor 8,8, Fil 4,11, al.; λέγει ἡ γραφή, Rom 4,3, Jak 2,23, al.; with accusative of thing(s), Luk 8,8; 9,33, Joh 5,34, al.; σὺ λέγεις (a non-committal phrase; Swete, Mk., 359, 369f.), Matt 27,11, Mark 15,2, Luk 23,3, Joh 18,37; with dative of person(s), before orat. dir., Matt 8,20, Mark 2,17, al. mult.; id. before ὅτι, Matt 3,9, al.; with prep., πρός, μετά, περί, etc., Mark 4,41, Joh 11,56, Hebr 9,5, al.; to mean (cl.), Mark 14,71, Joh 6,71, 1 Kor 10,29, al.; to call, name, Mark 10,18 pass., Matt 9,9, Mark 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).