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Saith

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1,262exact KJV occurrences 955Old Testament 307New Testament 47books containing the word 8mapped Strong's IDs 1,246occurrence-specific Strong's links

FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 22:16

And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 22:20

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

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HEAVIEST BOOK

Jeremiah

336 occurrences in 320 verses.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where saith appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 55 verses Exodus 1111 verses Numbers 55 verses Joshua 44 verses Judges 22 verses 1 Samuel 87 verses 2 Samuel 77 verses 1 Kings 2018 verses 2 Kings 3231 verses 1 Chronicles 44 verses 2 Chronicles 1414 verses Ezra 11 verses Nehemiah 11 verses Job 65 verses Psalms 33 verses Proverbs 1111 verses Ecclesiastes 55 verses Isaiah 109103 verses Jeremiah 336320 verses Lamentations 22 verses Ezekiel 212207 verses Hosea 44 verses Joel 11 verses Amos 4545 verses Obadiah 44 verses Micah 55 verses Nahum 33 verses Habakkuk 11 verses Zephaniah 66 verses Haggai 1914 verses Zechariah 4235 verses Malachi 2723 verses Matthew 4746 verses Mark 4846 verses Luke 1010 verses John 113102 verses Acts 1010 verses Romans 1918 verses 1 Corinthians 88 verses 2 Corinthians 33 verses Galatians 22 verses Ephesians 22 verses 1 Timothy 11 verses Hebrews 1413 verses James 33 verses 1 John 33 verses Revelation 2423 verses

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH559

אָמַר

ʼâmar · aw-mar'

580 times translated as this KJV form5,305 total Strong's occurrences

to say (used with great latitude)

Strong's KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, × desire, determine, × expressly, × indeed, × intend, name, × plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), × still, × suppose, talk, tell, term, × that is, × think, use (speech), utter, × verily, × yet.

Other KJV renderings

said 2,772 saying 909 say 529 spake 109 answered 91 Say 35 speak 34 tell 25

Strong's first: Genesis 32:4Strong's last: Malachi 4:3

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HebrewH5002

נְאֻם

nᵉʼum · neh-oom'

366 times translated as this KJV form376 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

an oracle

Strong's KJV usage: (hath) said, saith.

Other KJV renderings

said 9 spake 1

Strong's first: Genesis 22:16Strong's last: Malachi 1:2

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GreekG3004

λέγω

légō · leg'-o

284 times translated as this KJV form1,358 total Strong's occurrences

properly, to "lay" forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas G2036 and G5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while G4483 is properly to break silence merely, and G2980 means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean

Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say(-ing, on), shew, speak, tell, utter.

Other KJV renderings

saying 339 said 182 I say 132 say 126 Saying 41 called 37 speak 28 spake 17

Strong's first: Matthew 4:6Strong's last: Revelation 22:20

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HebrewH1696

דָבַר

dâbar · daw-bar'

7 times translated as this KJV form1,142 total Strong's occurrences

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

Strong's KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, × well, × work.

Other KJV renderings

spake 314 speak 221 spoken 173 said 84 Speak 53 speaking 36 talked 29 promised 29

Strong's first: Genesis 44:7Strong's last: 2 Samuel 24:12

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GreekG2036

ἔπω

épō · ep'-o

3 times translated as this KJV form996 total Strong's occurrences

to speak or say (by word or writing)

Strong's KJV usage: :--answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak, tell.

Other KJV renderings

said 701 say 33 spake 25 spoken 18 saying 16 he 14 tell 14 he said 14

Strong's first: Mark 11:23Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 15:27

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GreekG5346

φημί

phēmí · fay-mee'

3 times translated as this KJV form58 total Strong's occurrences

to show or make known one's thoughts, i.e. speak or say

Strong's KJV usage: :--affirm, say.

Other KJV renderings

said 42 he 5 say 3 He said 1 he said 1 that 1 I 1 they 1

Strong's first: Matthew 17:26Strong's last: Acts 22:2

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GreekG2980

λαλέω

laléō · lal-eh'-o

2 times translated as this KJV form315 total Strong's occurrences

to talk, i.e. utter words

Strong's KJV usage: :--preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter.

Other KJV renderings

speak 82 spake 66 speaketh 20 spoken 20 speaking 10 talked 8 While 5 he 5

Strong's first: John 16:18Strong's last: Romans 3:19

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HebrewH6310

פֶּה

peh · peh

1 times translated as this KJV form496 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to

Strong's KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), × eat, edge, end, entry, file, hole, × in, mind, mouth, part, portion, × (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, × spoken, talk, tenor, × to, two-edged, wish, word.

Other KJV renderings

mouth 329 commandment 37 edge 35 according 20 word 15 mouths 12 hole 6 to 3

Strong's first: 2 Samuel 17:5Strong's last: 2 Samuel 17:5

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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42 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Zechariah 1:3

H559

Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 1:3

H5002

Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 1:3

H559

Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 1:4

H559

Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 1:4

H5002

Zechariah 1:14

H559

So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

Zechariah 1:16

H559

Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

Zechariah 1:16

H5002

Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

Zechariah 1:17

H559

Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

Zechariah 2:5

H5002

For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

Zechariah 2:6

H5002

Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 2:6

H5002

Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 2:8

H559

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

Zechariah 2:10

H5002

Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 3:7

H559

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

Zechariah 3:9

H5002

For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

Zechariah 3:10

H5002

In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.

Zechariah 4:6

H559

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 5:4

H5002

I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

Zechariah 7:13

H559

Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:

Zechariah 8:2

H559

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

Zechariah 8:3

H559

Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

Zechariah 8:4

H559

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

Zechariah 8:6

H559

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 8:6

H5002

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

say

SAY, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive said, contracted from sayed.

1. To speak; to utter in words; as, he said nothing; he said many things; he says not a word. say a good word for me.

It is observable that although this word is radically synonymous with speak and tell, yet the uses are applications of these words are different. Thus we say to speak an oration, to tell a story; but in these phrases, say cannot be used. Yet to say a lesson is good English, though not very elegant. We never use the phrases to say a sermon or discourse, to say an argument, to say a speech, to say testimony.

A very general use of say is to introduce a relation, narration or recital, either of the speaker himself or of something said or done or to be done by another. Thus Adam said, this is bone of my bone; Noah said, blessed be the Lord God of Shem. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. say to the cities of Judah, behold your God. I cannot say what I should do in a similar case. say thus precedes a sentence. But it is perhaps impracticable to reduce the peculiar and appropriate uses of say speak and tell, to general rules. They can be learned only by observation.

2. To declare. Genesis 38:1.

3. To utter; to pronounce.

SAY now Shibboleth. Judges 12:6.

4. To utter, as a command.

God said, let there be light. Genesis 1:3.

5. To utter, as a promise. Luke 23:29.

6. To utter, as a question or answer. Mark 11:3.

7. To affirm; to teach. Matthew 17:10.

8. To confess. Luke 17:6.

9. To testify. Acts 26:22.

10. To argue; to allege by way of argument.

After all that can be said against a thing -

11. To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; as, to say a lesson.

12. To pronounce; to recite without singing. Then shall be said or sung as follows.

13. To report; as in the phrases, it is said, they say

14. To answer; to utter by way of reply; to tell.

SAY, Stella, feel you no content, reflecting on a life well spent?

[Note - This verb is not properly intransitive. In the phrase, 'as when we say Plato is no fool, ' the last clause is the object after the verb; that is, 'we say what follows.' If this verb is properly intransitive in any case, it is in the phrase, 'that is to say ' but in such cases, the subsequent clause is the object of the verb, being that which is said, uttered or related.]

SAY, noun A speech; something said. [In popular use, but not elegant.]

SAY, noun [for assay.]

1. A sample. obsolete

2. Trial by sample. obsolete

SAY, noun A thin silk. obsolete

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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