LXX Concordance for λέγουσα

Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given[fn] me another offspring[fn] in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

So she laughed to herself: “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I have delight? ”

Sarah denied it. “I did not laugh,” she said, because she was afraid.

But he replied, “No, you did laugh.”

The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab.[fn] He is the father of the Moabites of today.

Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben,[fn] for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love me now.”

She named him Joseph[fn] and said, “May the LORD add another son to me.”

As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law this message: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these? ”

As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand, and the midwife took it and tied a scarlet thread around it, announcing, “This one came out first.”

She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Sleep with me! ” But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.

Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought to us came to make a fool of me,

When his master heard the story his wife told him ​— ​“These are the things your slave did to me” ​— ​he was furious

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[fn] “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

Miriam sang to them:

Sing to the LORD,

for he is highly exalted;

he has thrown the horse

and its rider into the sea.

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I didn't know where they were from.

When she arrived, she persuaded Othniel to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you? ”

Then the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. He looked like the awe-inspiring angel of God. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't tell me his name.

When Delilah realized that he had told her the whole truth, she sent this message to the Philistine leaders: “Come one more time, for he has told me the whole truth.” The Philistine leaders came to her and brought the silver with them.

Making a vow, she pleaded, “LORD of Armies, if you will take notice of your servant's affliction, remember and not forget me, and give your servant a son, I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.”[fn]

Saul sent agents to David's house to watch for him and kill him in the morning. But his wife Michal warned David, “If you don't escape tonight, you will be dead tomorrow! ”

She said, “In the past they used to say, ‘Seek counsel in Abel,' and that's how they settled disputes.

“Go, approach King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your servant: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne? So why has Adonijah become king? '

One of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.”

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “My lord the king, help! ”

Jabez[fn] was more honored than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez and said, “I gave birth to him in pain.”

Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

She has sent out her female servants;

she calls out from the highest points of the city:

“Whoever is inexperienced, enter here! ”

To the one who lacks sense, she says,

“So now hear this, lover of luxury,

who sits securely,

who says to herself,

‘I am, and there is no one else.

I will never be a widow

or know the loss of children.'

Why do you boast about your valleys,

your flowing valley,[fn]

you faithless daughter —

you who trust in your treasures

and say, “Who can attack me? ”

Then my enemy will see,

and she will be covered with shame,

the one who said to me,

“Where is the LORD your God? ”

My eyes will look at her in triumph;

at that time she will be trampled

like mud in the streets.

This is the jubilant city

that lives in security,

that says to herself:

I exist, and there is no one else.

What a desolation she has become,

a place for wild animals to lie down!

Everyone who passes by her

scoffs[fn] and shakes his fist.