Exodus 5:8
And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
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Tale
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Psalms 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
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הֶגֶה
hegeh · heh'-geh
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a muttering (in sighing, thought, or as thunder)
Strong's KJV usage: mourning, sound, tale.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 90:9Strong's last: Psalms 90:9
Open full H1899 profile →מָלֵא
mâlêʼ · maw-lay'
1 times translated as this KJV form248 total Strong's occurrences
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, confirm, consecrate, be at an end, be expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil, (be, become, × draw, give in, go) full(-ly, -ly set, tale), (over-) flow, fulness, furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space, take a (hand-) full, have wholly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 18:27Strong's last: 1 Samuel 18:27
Open full H4390 profile →מִסְפָּר
miçpâr · mis-pawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form131 total Strong's occurrences
a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration
Strong's KJV usage: abundance, account, × all, × few, (in-) finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, time.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 9:28Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 9:28
Open full H4557 profile →מַתְכֹנֶת
mathkôneth · math-ko'-neth
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
proportion (in size, number or ingredients)
Strong's KJV usage: composition, measure, state, tale.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 5:8Strong's last: Exodus 5:8
Open full H4971 profile →תֹּכֶן
tôken · to'-ken
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a fixed quantity
Strong's KJV usage: measure, tale.
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Strong's first: Exodus 5:18Strong's last: Exodus 5:18
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H4390
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
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tale
TALE, noun [See Tell.] A story; a narrative; the rehearsal of a series of events or adventures, commonly some trifling incidents; or a fictitious narrative; as the tale of a tub. Marmontel's tales; idle tales. Luke 24:11.
We spend our years as a tale that is told Psalms 90:9.
1. Oral relation.
2. Reckoning; account set down. Exodus 5:8.
In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
3. Number reckoned.
--The ignorant who measure by tale not be weight.
4. A telling; information; disclosure of any thing secret.
Birds--are aptest by their voice to tell tales what they find.
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood. Ezekiel 22:9.
5. In law, a count or declaration. [Tale, in this sense, is obsolete.]
6. In commerce, a weight for gold and silver in China and other parts of the E. Indies; also, a money of account. In China, each tale is 10 maces=100 candareens-1000 cash.
TALE, verb intransitive To tell stories.
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.
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