Skip to content
The Historic Faith
Strong's Concordance
Greek Word Study

Strong's G2046 ἐρέω (ereo)

Ereo means “say” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2046 — hittuk (“is melted”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2046
Language Greek
Linked Usages 495
Books 60

Strong's G2046 Quick Answer

Strong's G2046 ἐρέω (ereo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ereo (er-eh'-o) v. 1. to utter, i.e. speak or say [probably a fuller form of G4483, an alternate for G2036 in certain tenses] It has 495 linked Bible usages across 60 books. Visible English usage signals include say, shalt, lord, israel, and god. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
ereo (er-eh'-o) v. 1. to utter, i.e. speak or say [probably a fuller form of G4483, an alternate for G2036 in certain tenses]
Usage
495 linked usages
Books
60 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
say, shalt, lord, israel, and god

Meaning and Definition

ereo (er-eh'-o) v. 1. to utter, i.e. speak or say [probably a fuller form of G4483, an alternate for G2036 in certain tenses] KJV: call, say, speak (of), tell Root(s): G4483 Compare: G3004, G5346, G2980 See also: G2036

Original Word
ἐρέω
Transliteration
ereo
Derivation
Root: ῥέω R1: 4483
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2046. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to say

Usage: λέγω, [in LXX very freq., chiefly for אמר; λέγει for נְאֻם, Gen.22:16, al. ;] __1. in Hom., to pick out, gather, reckon, recount. __2. In Hdt. and Att., to say, speak, affirm, declare: absol., Act.13:15, 24:10; before orat. dir., Mat.9:34, Mrk.3:11, Jhn.1:29, al.; before ὅτι recit., Mrk.3:21, Luk.1:24, Jhn.6:14, al.; accusative and inf., Luk.11:18, Jhn.12:29, al.; after another verb of speaking, προσφωνεῖν κ. λέγειν, Mat.11:17, al.;

ἀπεκρίθη (ἐλάλησεν) λέγων (καὶ λέγει; Dalman, Words, 24 ff.), Mat.25:9, Mrk.3:33, 7:28, Luk.24:6, 7, al.; of unspoken thought, λ. ἐν ἑαυτῷ, Mat.3:9, Luk.3:8, al.; of writing, 2Co.8:8, Php.4:11, al.; λέγει ἡ γραφή, Rom.4:3, Jas.2:23, al.; with accusative of thing(s), Luk.8:8, 9:33, Jhn.5:34, al.; σὺ λέγεις (a non-committal phrase; Swete, Mk., 359, 369f.), Mat.27:11, Mrk.15:2, Luk.23:3, Jhn.18:37; with dative of person(s), before orat. dir., Mat.8:20, Mrk.2:17, al. mult.; id. before ὅτι, Mat.3:9, al.;

with prep., πρός, μετά, περί, etc., Mrk.4:41, Jhn.11:56, Heb.9:5, al.; to mean (cl.), Mrk.14:71, Jhn.6:71, 1Co.10:29, al.; to call, name, Mrk.10:18; pass., Mat.9:9, Mrk.15:7, al (cf. ἀντι-, δια- (-μαι), προ-, συλ-λέγω). SYN.: λαλέω, which refers to the utterance, as λέγω to the meaning of what is said, its correspondence with thought (Tr., Syn., Ixxvi; Thayer, see word λαλέω). (AS)

STEPBible · Tyndale House, Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

say shalt lord israel god children speak said people thee before land

How Strong's G2046 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 384 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2046 (ἐρέω) appears 441 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

Read the full Greek Septuagint interlinear with Strong's →

Strong's G2046 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2046 in the New Testament

71 indexed usages in New Testament.

Strong's G2046 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

384 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 10:9 Septuagint / Brenton

He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As Nimrod the giant hunter before the Lord.

Genesis 12:12 Septuagint / Brenton

It shall come to pass then that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall slay me, but they shall save thee alive.

Genesis 15:13 Septuagint / Brenton

And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.

Strong's G2046 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

34 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G2046 in 1 Enoch

6 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2046.

Genesis 10:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As Nimrod the giant hunter before the Lord.
Genesis 12:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It shall come to pass then that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall slay me, but they shall save thee alive.
Genesis 15:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.
Genesis 18:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring bread, and ye shall eat, and after this ye shall depart on your journey, on account of which refreshment ye have turned aside to your servant. And he said, So do, as thou hast said.
Genesis 31:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All the wealth and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be ours and our children’s; now then do whatsoever God has said to thee.
Genesis 32:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye say to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob; I have sojourned with Laban and tarried until now.
Genesis 32:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt say, Thy servant Jacob’s; he hath sent gifts to my lord Esau, and lo! he is behind us.
Genesis 32:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and ye shall say, Behold thy servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his countenance with the gifts going before his presence, and afterward I will behold his face, for peradventure he will accept me.
Genesis 37:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.
Genesis 41:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as for the word which I have told Pharaoh, whatsoever God intends to do, he has shown to Pharaoh:
Genesis 42:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph said to them, This is it that I spoke to you, saying, ye are spies;
Genesis 43:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said, The man closely questioned us about our family also, saying, Does your father yet live, and have ye a brother? and we answered him according to this question: did we know that he would say to us, Bring your brother?
Genesis 44:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they had gone out of the city, and were not far off, then Joseph said to his steward, Arise, and pursue after the men; and thou shalt overtake them, and say to them, Why have ye returned evil for good?
Genesis 45:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel did so; and Joseph gave to them wagons, according to the words spoken by King Pharaoh; and he gave them provision for the journey.
Genesis 45:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they spoke to him all the words uttered by Joseph, whatsoever he said to them; and having seen the chariots which Joseph sent to take him up, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
Genesis 46:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph said to his brethren, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, My brethren, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come to me.
Genesis 46:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall say, We thy servants are herdsmen from our youth until now, both we and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen of Arabia, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Exodus 3:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said to God, Behold, I shall go forth to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, The God of our fathers has sent me to you; and they will ask me, What is his name? What shall I say to them?
Exodus 3:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God spoke to Moses, saying, I am THE BEING; and he said, Thus shall ye say to the children of Israel, THE BEING has sent me to you.
Exodus 3:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said again to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the sons of Israel, The Lord God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name forever, and my memorial to generations of generations.
Exodus 3:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go then and gather the elders of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, The Lord God of our fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, saying, I have surely looked upon you, and upon all the things which have happened to you in Egypt.
Exodus 3:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall hearken to thy voice, and thou and the elders of Israel shall go in to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us; we will go then a journey of three days into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to our God.
Exodus 4:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses answered and said, If they believe me not, and do not hearken to my voice (for they will say, God has not appeared to thee), what shall I say to them?
Exodus 4:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt speak to him; and thou shalt put my words into his mouth, and I will open thy mouth and his mouth, and I will instruct you in what ye shall do.
Exodus 4:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, These things saith the Lord, Israel is my firstborn.
Exodus 7:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now if Pharaoh should speak to you, saying, Give us a sign or a wonder, then shalt thou say to thy brother Aaron, Take thy rod and cast it upon the ground before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it shall become a serpent.
Exodus 7:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say to him, The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to thee, saying, Send my people away, that they may serve me in the wilderness, and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened.
Exodus 7:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and thou shalt say to him, These things says the Lord: send forth my people, that they may serve me.
Exodus 8:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, On the morrow: he said therefore, As thou hast said; that thou mayest know, that there is no other God but the Lord.
Exodus 8:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh: and, behold, he will go forth to the water, and thou shalt say to him, These things says the Lord: Send away my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness.
Exodus 9:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and thou shalt say to him, These things saith the Lord God of the Hebrews; Send my people away that they may serve me.
Exodus 9:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; and thou shalt say to him, These things saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Send away my people that they may serve me.
Exodus 10:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses says, Thou hast said, I will not appear in thy presence again.
Exodus 12:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that ye shall say to them, This Passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.
Exodus 13:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thy son should ask thee hereafter, saying, What is this? then thou shalt say to him, With a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exodus 14:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh will say to his people, As for these children of Israel, they are wandering in the land, for the wilderness has shut them in.
Exodus 19:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses went up to the mount of God, and God called him out of the mountain, saying, These things shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and thou shalt report them to the children of Israel.
Exodus 19:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall be to me a royal priesthood and a holy nation: these words shalt thou speak to the children of Israel.
Exodus 20:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and thou shalt report it to the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.
Exodus 22:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor speak ill of the ruler of thy people.
Exodus 23:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and ye shall make no mention of the name of other gods, neither shall they be heard out of your mouth.
Exodus 23:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If ye will indeed hear my voice, and if thou wilt do all the things I shall charge thee with, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and ye shall be to me a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall ye speak to the children of Israel, If ye shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things I shall tell thee, I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.
Exodus 32:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now go, descend, and lead this people into the place of which I spoke to thee: behold, my angel shall go before thy face; and in the day when I shall visit I will bring upon them their sin.
Exodus 33:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, I will also do for thee this thing, which thou hast spoken; for thou hast found grace before me, and I know thee above all.
Leviticus 1:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If any man of you shall bring gifts to the Lord, ye shall bring your gifts of the cattle and of the oxen and of the sheep.
Leviticus 12:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatsoever woman shall have conceived and born a male child shall be unclean seven days, she shall be unclean according to the days of separation for her monthly courses.
Leviticus 15:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatever man shall have an issue out of his body, his issue is unclean.
Leviticus 17:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, This is the word which the Lord has commanded, saying,
Leviticus 17:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say to them, Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the sons of the proselytes abiding among you, shall offer a whole burnt offering or a sacrifice,
Leviticus 17:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, and the stranger that abides among you shall not eat blood.
Leviticus 18:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy.
Leviticus 19:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not revile the deaf, neither shalt thou put a stumbling block in the way of the blind; and thou shalt fear the Lord thy God: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 21:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt tell them that they shall not defile themselves in their nation for the dead,
Leviticus 22:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the congregation of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Any man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that abide among them in Israel, who shall offer his gifts according to all their confession and according to all their choice, whatsoever they may bring to the Lord for whole burnt offerings—
Leviticus 23:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, The feasts of the Lord which ye shall call holy assemblies, these are my feasts.
Leviticus 23:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye shall enter into the land which I give you, and reap the harvest of it, then shall ye bring a sheaf, the firstfruits of your harvest, to the priest;
Leviticus 24:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And speak to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whosoever shall curse God shall bear his sin.
Leviticus 25:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whensoever ye shall have entered into the land, which I give to you, then the land shall rest which I give to you, for its Sabbaths to the Lord.
Leviticus 27:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whosoever shall vow a vow as the valuation of his soul for the Lord,
Numbers 5:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whosesoever wife shall transgress against him, and slight and despise him,
Numbers 5:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with thee, and if thou hast not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of thy husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse.
Numbers 5:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then the priest shall adjure the woman by the oaths of this curse, and the priest shall say to the woman, The Lord bring thee into a curse and under an oath in the midst of thy people, in that the Lord should cause thy thigh to rot and thy belly to swell;
Numbers 5:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and this water bringing the curse shall enter into thy womb to cause thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot. And the woman shall say, So be it, So be it.
Numbers 6:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatsoever man or woman shall specially vow a vow to separate oneself with purity to the Lord,
Numbers 8:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to him, Whenever thou shalt set the lamps in order, the seven lamps shall give light opposite the candlestick.
Numbers 11:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And to the people thou shalt say, Purify yourselves for the morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye wept before the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: and the Lord shall allow you to eat flesh, and ye shall eat flesh.
Numbers 14:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,
Numbers 15:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye are come into the land of your habitation, which I give to you,
Numbers 15:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye are entering into the land, into which I bring you,
Numbers 15:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them; and let them make for themselves fringes upon the borders of their garments throughout their generations: and ye shall put upon the fringes of the borders a lace of blue.
Numbers 18:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because I have given as a distinct portion to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the children of Israel, whatsoever they shall offer to the Lord; therefore I said to them, In the midst of the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Numbers 18:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt also speak to the Levites, and shalt say to them, If ye take the tithe from the children of Israel, which I have given you from them for an inheritance, then shall ye separate from it a heave offering to the Lord, a tenth of the tenth.
Numbers 18:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say to them, When ye shall offer the firstfruits from it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing floor, and as produce from the winepress.
Numbers 21:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore say they who deal in dark speeches, Come to Heshbon, That the city of Sihon may be built and prepared.
Numbers 23:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For there is no divination in Jacob, Nor enchantment in Israel; In season it shall be told to Jacob and Israel What God shall perform.
Numbers 24:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to transgress the word of the Lord to make it good or bad by myself; whatsoever things God shall say, them will I speak.
Numbers 28:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Charge the children of Israel, and thou shalt speak to them, saying, Ye shall observe to offer to me in my feasts my gifts, my presents, my burnt offerings for a sweet-smelling savor.
Numbers 28:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say to them, These are the burnt offerings, all that ye shall bring to the Lord; two lambs of a year old without blemish daily, for a whole burnt offering perpetually.
Numbers 33:51 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to pass over Jordan into the land of Canaan.
Numbers 34:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Charge the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are entering into the land of Canaan: it shall be to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan with its boundaries.
Numbers 35:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to cross over Jordan into the land of Canaan.
Deuteronomy 4:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Deuteronomy 6:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then shalt thou say to thy son, We were slaves to Pharaoh in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm.
Deuteronomy 12:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy borders, as he said to thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh; if thy soul should desire to eat flesh, thou shalt eat flesh according to all the desire of thy soul.
Deuteronomy 17:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt do according to the law and to the judgment which they shall declare to thee: thou shalt not swerve to the right hand or to the left from any sentence which they shall report to thee.
Deuteronomy 20:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear, O Israel; ye are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint, fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face.
Deuteronomy 20:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the scribes shall speak further to the people, and say, What man is he that fears and is cowardly in his heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest he make the heart of his brother fail, as his own.
Deuteronomy 21:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it.
Deuteronomy 21:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveler and a drunkard.
Deuteronomy 22:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the father of the damsel shall say to the elders, I gave this my daughter to this man for a wife;
Deuteronomy 25:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the man should not be willing to take his brother’s wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband’s brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband’s brother has refused.
Deuteronomy 25:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not take her:
Deuteronomy 25:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then his brother’s wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother’s house in Israel.
Deuteronomy 26:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt come to the priest who shall be in those days, and thou shalt say to him, I testify this day to the Lord my God, that I am come into the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give to us.
Deuteronomy 26:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he shall answer and say before the Lord thy God, My father abandoned Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude.
Deuteronomy 26:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have fully collected the holy things out of my house, and I have given them to the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, according to all the commands which thou didst command me: I did not transgress thy command, and I did not forget it.
Deuteronomy 27:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Levites shall answer and say to all Israel with a loud voice,
Deuteronomy 27:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is the man whosoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is the man that dishonors his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is he that removes his neighbor’s landmarks: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is he that makes the blind to wander in the way: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is everyone that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is he that lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s skirt: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is he that lies with any beast: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is he that lies with his sister by his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is he that lies with his daughter-in-law: and all the people shall say, So be it. Cursed is he that lies with his wife’s sister: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is he that smites his neighbor secretly: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is he whosoever shall have taken a bribe to slay an innocent man: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 28:67 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were evening! and in the evening thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thy heart with which thou shalt fear, and for the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Deuteronomy 29:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law.
Deuteronomy 29:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
brimstone and burning salt (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger)—
Deuteronomy 29:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger?
Deuteronomy 31:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my face away from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.
Deuteronomy 32:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Remember the days of old, Consider the years for past ages: Ask thy father, and he shall relate to thee, Thine elders, and they shall tell thee.
Deuteronomy 32:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I will lift up my hand to heaven, And swear by my right hand, And I will say, I live forever.
Joshua 1:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Every spot on which ye shall tread I will give it you, as I said to Moses.
Joshua 7:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy?
Joshua 8:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they shall come out after us, we will draw them away from the city; and they will say, These men flee from before us, as also before.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2046, grouped by book.

Genesis 17 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 27 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 16 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 22 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 35 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 12 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 17 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 39 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 50 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 47 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 11 usages, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 18 usages, New Testament
John 6 usages, New Testament
Acts 7 usages, New Testament
Romans 11 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 3 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 2 usages, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 6 usages, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 3 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 9 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 151 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 6 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G2046 FAQ

What does ereo (ἐρέω) mean?

Ereo (Strong's G2046) is a Greek word most simply glossed "say". ereo (er-eh'-o) v. 1. to utter, i.e. speak or say [probably a fuller form of G4483, an alternate for G2036 in certain tenses]

How many times is ereo (ἐρέω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 495 linked usages for Strong's G2046 across 60 books.

Where can I study ereo (ἐρέω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2046 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate ereo (ἐρέω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as say, shalt, lord, israel, god, and children. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2046 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 384 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 34 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 6 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2046, with linked reader references where each row is available.