Genesis 43:17
And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.
Read in context →Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.
And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.
Read in context →The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
Read in context →4 occurrences in 4 verses.
Browse those occurrences →This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
ʼâmar · aw-mar'
to say (used with great latitude)
Strong's KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, × desire, determine, × expressly, × indeed, × intend, name, × plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), × still, × suppose, talk, tell, term, × that is, × think, use (speech), utter, × verily, × yet.
Strong's first: Genesis 43:17Strong's last: Esther 4:15
Open full H559 profile →kaléō · kal-eh'-o
to "call" (properly, aloud, but used in a variety of applications, directly or otherwise)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bid, call (forth), (whose, whose sur-)name (was (called)).
Strong's first: Luke 14:9Strong's last: Luke 14:16
Open full G2564 profile →tsâvâh · tsaw-vaw'
(intensively) to constitute, enjoin
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, (for-) bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
Strong's first: Exodus 16:24Strong's last: 2 Samuel 14:19
Open full H6680 profile →épō · ep'-o
to speak or say (by word or writing)
Strong's KJV usage: :--answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak, tell.
Strong's first: Matthew 16:12Strong's last: Acts 11:12
Open full G2036 profile →apotássomai · ap-ot-as'-som-ahee
literally, to say adieu (by departing or dismissing); figuratively, to renounce
Strong's KJV usage: :--bid farewell, forsake, take leave, send away.
Strong's first: Acts 18:21Strong's last: Acts 18:21
Open full G657 profile →dâbar · daw-bar'
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
Strong's KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, × well, × work.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 10:12Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 10:12
Open full H1696 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
1 occurrence match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
BAD, BADE, the past tense of bid. [See Bid.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.