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
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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
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tôken · to'-ken
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a fixed quantity
Strong's KJV usage: measure, tale.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 5:18Strong's last: Exodus 5:18
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For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
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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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