G2981
λαλιά
speech
λαλία, -ᾶς, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for דָּבָר, דִּבְרָה ;] __1. loquacity = Very talkative. __2. talk, speech, conversation: Mat.26:73 (cf. Ca 43), Jhn.4:42 8:43.† (AS)
The KJV translates G2981 in the following manner:
speech (6x), of (2x), saying (2x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
λαλιά — laliá
λαλιά, λαλιᾶς, ἡ (λάλος, cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sprchl. § 119 Anm. 21), in secular authors (from Aristophanes down) loquacity, talkativeness, talk (German Gerede) (see λαλέω, at the beginning); in a good sense conversation; in the N. T.
1. speech, equivalent to story: Joh 4:42.
2. dialect, mode of speech, pronunciation (Winer's Grammar, 23): Mar 14:70 Rec.; Mat 26:73; speech which discloses the speaker's native country: hence of the speech by which Christ may be recognized as having come from heaven, Joh 8:43 (where cf. Meyer).
4 occurrences
Matthew (1), Mark (1), John (2)