ἔπωépō

to speak or say (by word or writing)

Greek (New Testament) · G2036

Meanings

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

2. In Hdt. and Att., to say, speak, affirm, declare: absolutely, Acts 13:15, Acts 24:10; followed by orat. dir., Matthew 9:34, Mark 3:11, John 1:29, and elsewhere; followed by ὅτι recit., Mark 3:21, Luke 1:24, John 6:14, and elsewhere; accusative et. infinitive, Luke 11:18, John 12:29, and elsewhere; after another verb of speaking, προσφωνεῖν κ. λέγειν, Matthew 11:17, and elsewhere; ἀπεκρίθη (ἐλάλησεν) λέγων, Matthew 25:9, Mark 3:33, Mark 7:28, Luke 24:6, Luke 24:7, and elsewhere; of unspoken thought, λ. ἐν ἑαυτῷ, Matthew 3:9, Luke 3:8, and elsewhere; of writing, 2 Corinthians 8:8, Philippians 4:11, and elsewhere; λέγει ἡ γραφή, Romans 4:3, James 2:23, and elsewhere; with accusative of thing, Luke 8:8, Luke 9:33, John 5:34, and elsewhere; σὺ λέγεις, Matthew 27:11, Mark 15:2, Luke 23:3, John 18:37; with dative of person, followed by orat. dir., Matthew 8:20, Mark 2:17, and elsewhere many times; id. followed by ὅτι, Matthew 3:9, and elsewhere; with preposition, πρός, μετά, περί, etc., Mark 4:41, John 11:56, Hebrews 9:5, and elsewhere; to mean (classical Greek), Mark 14:71, John 6:71, 1 Corinthians 10:29, and elsewhere; to call, name, Mark 10:18; passive, Matthew 9:9, Mark 15:7, al (cf. ἀντι-, δια- (-μαι), προ-, συλ-λέγω).

λαλέω, which refers to the utterance, as λέγω to the meaning of what is said, its correspondence with thought.

Appears 926 times in the Bible.

Matthew 2:5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they said, “for this is what the prophet wrote:
Matthew 2:8 Then he told them, “Go to Bethlehem and search carefully for the child. And when you find him, come back and tell me so that I can go and worship him, too!”
Matthew 2:13 After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize, he denounced them. “You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned you to flee the coming wrath?
Matthew 3:15 But Jesus said, “It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires.” So John agreed to baptize him.
Matthew 4:3 During that time the devil came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”

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Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.