2001 Translation

EIPAN, eipan

Sounds Like: AY-pahn

Translations: they said, they spoke

From the root: ΕΙΠΟΝ

Part of Speech: Verb

Explanation: This word is the third person plural aorist active indicative form of the verb 'εἶπον' (eîpon), which functions as the aorist tense for 'λέγω' (legō), meaning 'to say' or 'to speak'. It describes a completed action in the past, indicating that a group of people 'said' or 'spoke' something. It is used to report direct speech or to state what was communicated by multiple individuals.

Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Active, 3rd Person, Plural

Strong’s number: G2036 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 6:2, 9:2, 9:4

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 12:6

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 8 — 10:246

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 11:4, 19:2, 19:9, 19:12, 19:17, 24:33, 24:50, 24:55, 24:57, 24:58, 24:60, 26:28, 26:32, 29:4, 29:5, 29:6, 29:8, 31:14, 34:14, 34:31, 37:8, 37:19, 37:32, 38:21, 40:8, 42:7, 42:10, 42:13, 43:7, 43:18, 43:28, 47:3, 47:4, 47:18, 47:25, 50:11, 50:15, 50:18
• Exodus — 1:19, 2:19, 5:1, 5:21, 8:19, 10:3, 12:33, 14:5, 14:11, 14:25, 15:1, 16:3, 16:15, 19:8, 20:19, 24:7, 24:14, 32:8
• Numbers — 9:7, 11:4, 12:2, 13:28, 13:32, 14:2, 14:4, 14:7, 16:3, 16:12, 16:22, 17:12, 22:7, 22:14, 31:49, 32:2, 32:25, 36:2
• Joshua — 1:16, 2:14, 2:17, 2:24, 7:3, 9:12, 9:13, 9:14, 9:15, 9:17, 9:25, 9:27, 17:16, 22:33
• Judges — 3:24, 8:1, 8:18, 8:25, 9:3, 9:12, 9:14, 10:15, 11:2, 11:6, 11:8, 11:10, 12:1, 12:4, 12:5, 12:6, 14:13, 14:15, 14:18, 15:6, 15:10, 15:11, 15:12, 16:5, 16:23, 16:25, 18:2, 18:3, 18:5, 18:9, 18:14, 18:19, 18:23, 20:3, 20:18, 20:32, 20:39, 21:3, 21:6, 21:8, 21:17, 21:19
• Ruth — 1:10, 4:14
• 1 Samuel — 4:3, 4:22, 6:3, 6:4, 6:20, 7:6, 7:8, 8:5, 8:6, 8:19, 10:14, 10:24, 10:27, 11:10, 12:4, 12:5, 12:19, 14:36, 16:4, 16:15, 21:11, 23:3, 28:7, 30:22
• 2 Samuel — 4:8, 5:1, 12:18, 12:19, 12:21, 14:7, 14:30, 17:20, 17:21, 18:3, 19:42, 21:4, 21:5
• 1 Kings — 1:25, 12:24, 21:8, 22:6
• 2 Kings — 1:6, 2:5, 3:23, 4:40
• 1 Chronicles — 11:5
• 2 Chronicles — 12:6, 18:5, 18:31, 22:9, 23:11, 25:15, 26:18, 26:23, 28:13, 29:18, 31:4, 35:25
• Ezra (Alpha) — 3:4, 3:8, 3:16
• Ezra (Beta) — 4:2, 5:3, 10:12
• Nehemiah — 2:19, 4:3, 4:11, 5:12, 8:1, 8:6, 8:9, 9:18
• Esther — 2:2, 6:3, 6:5, 6:13
• Judith — 5:22, 7:4, 7:8, 7:23, 9:6, 10:7, 10:14, 11:20, 13:17, 13:20, 14:13, 15:9
• Tobit — 3:8, 7:3, 7:3, 7:4, 7:5, 7:5, 8:8, 8:15
• 1 Maccabees — 2:17, 2:33, 2:34, 3:17, 3:43, 5:57, 6:22, 7:14, 7:18, 7:36, 9:20, 12:3, 12:53, 13:46, 14:25, 14:48
• 2 Maccabees — 3:33
• Psalms — 34:21, 40:6, 63:6, 70:10, 72:11, 73:8, 77:19, 82:5, 82:13, 93:7, 128:8
• Psalms of Solomon — 1:5, 8:18
• Job — 3:3, 28:22
• Sirach — 13:23
• Isaiah — 37:3, 51:23
• Jeremiah — 2:6, 2:8, 2:27, 5:12, 6:16, 6:17, 12:4, 18:12, 18:18, 23:17, 27:7, 33:11, 33:16, 33:17, 42:6, 43:15, 43:16, 43:19, 45:4, 47:14, 48:8, 49:2, 49:5
• Lamentations — 2:12, 2:16
• Baruch — 1:10
• Ezekiel — 8:12, 9:9, 11:15, 12:9, 16:44, 36:13
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:7, 3:91, 4:23, 6:6, 13:13, 13:27, 13:28, 13:36, 13:47, 13:50, 14:11, 14:28, 14:29
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:16, 3:25, 6:5, 6:6, 6:12, 13:29, 13:36, 14:9, 14:28
• Jonah — 1:10, 1:11, 1:14
• Haggai — 2:12, 2:13
• Zechariah — 1:6
• Enoch — 6:2, 9:2, 9:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 2:5, 12:2, 13:10, 16:14, 17:24, 21:16, 21:27, 25:8, 27:6, 27:21
• Mark — 8:5, 8:28, 10:4, 10:37, 10:39, 11:6, 12:7, 12:16
• Luke — 1:61, 3:12, 5:33, 7:20, 9:13, 9:19, 9:54, 17:5, 18:26, 19:25, 19:33, 19:34, 19:39, 20:2, 20:16, 20:24, 20:39, 22:9, 22:35, 22:38, 22:49, 22:70, 22:71, 24:5, 24:19, 24:32
• John — 1:22, 1:25, 1:39, 2:18, 2:20, 7:52, 8:39, 8:41, 8:48, 8:52, 8:57, 9:12, 9:20, 9:23, 9:24, 9:28, 9:34, 9:40, 11:46, 12:19, 18:30, 19:24
• Acts — 1:11, 1:24, 4:23, 4:24, 5:29, 6:2, 10:22, 12:15, 13:46, 16:20, 16:31, 17:32, 19:3, 21:20, 23:4, 23:14, 28:21

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΙΠΟΝ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΕIΠΩ — I may say, I may speak, I may tell
• ΕἸΠΟΝ — I said, I spoke, he said, he spoke, they said, they spoke, to say, to speak
• ΕΙΠΑΜΕΝ — we said, we spoke, we told
• ΕΙΠΑΝΤΕΣ — having said, having spoken, they said, they spoke, who said, who spoke
• ΕΙΠΑΤΑΙ — it is said, it is spoken, they say, they speak
• ΕΙΠΕΘΗΣΑ — I said, I spoke, they said, they spoke
• ΕΙΠΕΣ — you said, you spoke
• ΕΙΠΟΙΣΑΝ — they said, they spoke, they told
• ΕΙΠΟΝ — I said, I spoke, said, spoke
• ΕΙΠΟΝΤΑ — having said, having spoken, to say, to speak
• ΕΙΠΟΝΤΕΣ — saying, having said, speaking, having spoken, telling, having told
• ΕΙΠΟΝΤΩ — let them say, they should say, they must say
• ΙΠΕΝ — he said, she said, it said, he spoke, she spoke, it spoke

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