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GreekG4483Verb

ἐρέω

rheō, ereō

46Occurrences
G4483Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to utter, i.e. speak or say

perhaps akin (or identical) with G4482 (ῥέω) (through the idea of pouring forth);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
1.in Hom., to pick out, gather, reckon, recount.
2.In Hdt. and Att., to say, speak, affirm, declare
Synonyms
λαλέω, which refers to the utterance, as *λέγω *to the meaning of what is said, its correspondence with thought .
LXX: very freq., chiefly for אמר; λέγει for נְאֻם

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

G:V

Full Description

Greek Verb

Occurrences

ἐρέω appears 46 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Luke
16
Matthew
10
Romans
10
1 Corinthians
3
Mark
2
2 Corinthians
1
Acts
1
James
1

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 14:16BSB

Otherwise, if you speak a blessing in spirit, how can someone who is uninstructed say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?

Luke 13:27BSB

And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’

Luke 20:5BSB

They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

Matthew 25:34BSB

Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Romans 11:19BSB

You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.