φημί

φημί — phēmí

φημί; imperfect ἔφην; (from φάω, to bring forth into the light (cf. Curtius, § 407)); hence (from Homer down) properly, to make known one's thoughts, to declare; to say: ἔφη, he said (once on a time), Mat 26:61; historical writers, in quoting the words of anyone, prefix φησίν, ἔφη (Latinait, inquit): Luk 22:58; Act 8:36, and often: φησίν and ἔφη are used of a person replying, Mat 13:29; Luk 7:40; Joh 1:23; Joh 9:38; Act 7:2, etc.; of one who asks a question, Mat 27:23; Act 16:30; Act 21:37; ἔφη μεγάλη τῇ φωνή, Act 26:24; ἀποκριθείς ἔφη, Mat 8:8; (φησίν is interjected into the recorded speech of another (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 61, 6), Mat 14:8; Act 25:5; Act 25:22; Act 26:25; also ἔφη, Act 23:35; φησίν, like the Latinait, inquit, is employed especially in the later Greek usage with an indefinite subject (`impersonally') (cf.man sagt, on dit, they say) (inserted in a sentence containing the words of another (cf. Winer's Grammar, as above)): 2Co 10:10 where L Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading φασίν (cf. Passow, ii, p. 2238a; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 1); Buttmann, § 129, 19; (Winer's Grammar, § 58, 9{b}. β.; § 64, 3)). φησίν namely, ὁ Θεός, 1Co 6:16 (here Lachmann brackets φησίν); Heb 8:5; (Winer's Grammar, 522 (486f)). The constructions of the verb are the following: ἔφη αὐτῷ, αὐτοῖς, he replied to him, to them, Mat 4:7; Mat 13:28; Mat 21:27, etc.; Mark ( T Tr text WH);; Luk 7:44; Act 26:32; ἀποκριθείς αὐτῷ ἔφη, Luk 23:3; ἔφη πρός τινα, Luk 22:70; Act 10:28; Act 16:37; Act 26:1; with an accusative of the thing, 1Co 10:15; 1Co 10:19; followed by ὅτι, 1Co 10:19; τοῦτο etc. ὅτι, 1Co 7:29 (Rec.bez elz; others omit ὅτι); 1Co 15:50; followed by an accusative with an infinitive, Rom 3:8. (On its alleged omission, see Winer's Grammar, § 64, 7 a. Compare: σύμφημι.)

STRONGS NT 5346a: φημίζωφημίζω: 1 aorist passive 3 person singular ἐφημισθη; especially frequent in the poets from Hesiod down; to spread a report, to disseminate by report: Mat 28:15 T WH marginal reading (after manuscripts א, Delta, 33, etc.) for διαφημίζω, which see