Dictionary entry

λαλέω

G. Abbott-Smith's A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

λαλέω, -ῶ,

[in LXX chiefly for דּבר pi., also for אמר, etc.;]

1. to utter: of inanimate things, Re 4:110:4; metaph., He 11:412:24.

2. to talk, speak, say: absol., Mt 9:3312:46, Mk 5:35, Lk 8:49; seq. ὡς, I Co 13:11, Re 13:11; εἰς, I Co 14:9; ἐκ, Mt 12:34; c. acc. rei, Mt 10:19, Mk 11:32, Jo 8:30, al.; c. dat. pers., Mt 12:46, Lk 24:6, Ro 7:1, al.; c. acc. rei et dat. pers., Mt 9:18, Jo 10:6, al.; c. prep., πρός, μετά, περί, Mk 6:50, Lk 1:192:33, al.; ἐν, ἐξ, ἀπό, Mt 13:3, Jo 12:4914:10, al.; λ. τ. λόγον, Mk 8:32, al.; seq. orat. dir. (not cl.), Mk 14:31, He 5:511:18; Hebraistically (Dalman, Words, 25 f.), ἐλάλησε λέγων, Mt 14:27, Jo 8:12, Ac 8:26, al.

SYN.: v.s. λέγω.