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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Told

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283exact KJV occurrences 222Old Testament 61New Testament 37books containing the word 23mapped Strong's IDs 277occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 3:11

And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Jude 1:18

How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where told appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

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.

HebrewH5046
נָגַד

nâgad · naw-gad'

151 times translated as this KJV form369 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise

Strong's KJV usage: bewray, × certainly, certify, declare(-ing), denounce, expound, × fully, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report, shew (forth), speak, × surely, tell, utter.

Strong's first: Genesis 3:11Strong's last: Jonah 1:10

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HebrewH5608
סָפַר

çâphar · saw-far'

26 times translated as this KJV form160 total Strong's occurrences

v n-m

properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate

Strong's KJV usage: commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.

Strong's first: Genesis 24:66Strong's last: Habakkuk 1:5

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HebrewH1696
דָבַר

dâbar · daw-bar'

15 times translated as this KJV form1,142 total Strong's occurrences

v

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: Genesis 20:8Strong's last: Zechariah 10:2

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HebrewH559
אָמַר

ʼâmar · aw-mar'

14 times translated as this KJV form5,305 total Strong's occurrences

v

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 22:3Strong's last: Daniel 8:26

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GreekG3004
λέγω

légō · leg'-o

4 times translated as this KJV form1,358 total Strong's occurrences

properly, to "lay" forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas G2036 and G5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while G4483 is properly to break silence merely, and G2980 means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean

Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say(-ing, on), shew, speak, tell, utter.

Strong's first: Luke 24:10Strong's last: Jude 1:18

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HebrewH1540
גָּלָה

gâlâh · gaw-law'

2 times translated as this KJV form190 total Strong's occurrences

v

to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal

Strong's KJV usage: advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, × plainly, publish, remove, reveal, × shamelessly, shew, × surely, tell, uncover.

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 9:15Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 17:25

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HebrewH8085
שָׁמַע

shâmaʻ · shaw-mah'

2 times translated as this KJV form1,160 total Strong's occurrences

v

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: × attentively, call (gather) together, × carefully, × certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, × diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), × indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, × surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.

Strong's first: Judges 13:23Strong's last: Isaiah 44:8

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GreekG1285
διασαφέω

diasaphéō · dee-as-af-eh'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

to clear thoroughly, i.e. (figuratively) declare

Strong's KJV usage: :--tell unto.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Matthew 18:31Strong's last: Matthew 18:31

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GreekG3377
μηνύω

mēnýō · may-noo'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

to disclose (through the idea of mental effort and thus calling to mind), i.e. report, declare, intimate

Strong's KJV usage: :--shew, tell.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 23:30Strong's last: Acts 23:30

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HebrewH7760
שׂוּם

sûwm · soom

1 times translated as this KJV form583 total Strong's occurrences

v

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

Strong's KJV usage: × any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, name, × on, ordain, order, paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, stedfastly, take, × tell, tread down, (over-)turn, × wholly, work.

Strong's first: Ezra 8:17Strong's last: Ezra 8:17

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HebrewH8505
תָּכַן

tâkan · taw-kan'

1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences

v

to balance, i.e. measure out (by weight or dimension); figuratively to arrange, equalize, through the idea of levelling (ment, estimate, test)

Strong's KJV usage: bear up, direct, be (un-)equal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh.

Strong's first: 2 Kings 12:11Strong's last: 2 Kings 12:11

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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17 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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1 Kings 1:23
H5046

And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

1 Kings 1:51
H5046

And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.

1 Kings 2:29
H5046

And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

1 Kings 2:39
H5046

And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.

1 Kings 2:41
H5046

And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

1 Kings 8:5
H5608

And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

1 Kings 10:3
H5046

And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.

1 Kings 10:3
H5046

And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.

1 Kings 10:7
H5046

Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

1 Kings 13:11
H5608

Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.

1 Kings 13:11
H5608

Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.

1 Kings 13:25
H1696

And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

1 Kings 14:2
H1696

And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

1 Kings 18:13
H5046

Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kings 18:16
H5046

So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

1 Kings 19:1
H5046

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

1 Kings 20:17
H5046

And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

told

TOLD, preterit tense and participle passive of tell.

Who told thee that thou wast naked? Genesis 3:11.

Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judges 16:2.

--Sheep and oxen that could not be told 1 Kings 8:5.

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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