diegeomai is used for giving an account of what was seen, done, or experienced, including telling of persons or a generation.

The attested use centers on giving a full account: witnesses, apostles, and individuals recount what happened, what they saw, or what God had done; it also introduces telling of named persons and the question of who can describe a generation.

1. Giving an account or recounting · dominant

   The aorist middle forms occur when people report events: in Acts 12:17 the speaker recounts how the Lord led him out of prison, and in Acts 9:27 Barnabas recounts what happened on the road and in Damascus. In Luke 9:10 the apostles report all that they had done, while in Mark 5:16 witnesses recount what happened to the demon-possessed man and the pigs. The present forms extend the same use to declaring what God had done in Luke 8:39 and to telling of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets in Hebrews 11:32; Mark 9:9 concerns telling what had been seen.

   Acts 12:17Acts 9:27Luke 9:10Mark 5:16Luke 8:39Hebrews 11:32

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB uses wording such as “described,” “told,” “declare,” “related fully,” and “tell.” These variations present the clauses' overall reporting context rather than separate lexical senses.