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And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
Read in context →Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
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légō · leg'-o
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.
Strong's first: Matthew 26:70Strong's last: Revelation 3:17
Open full G3004 profile →ʼâmar · aw-mar'
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.
Strong's first: Exodus 33:12Strong's last: Amos 7:16
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And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.
And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it.
And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
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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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