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

Job 37:20
H5608

Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

Psalms 44:1
H5608

<<To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.>> We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Psalms 52:1
no direct Strong's tag

<<To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.>> Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

Psalms 78:3
H5608

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Psalms 90:9
no direct Strong's tag

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

Ecclesiastes 6:6
no direct Strong's tag

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

Isaiah 7:2
H5046

And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.

Isaiah 36:22
H5046

Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 40:21
H5046

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Isaiah 44:8
H8085

Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

Isaiah 45:21
H5046

Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

Isaiah 52:15
H5608

So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

Jeremiah 36:20
H5046

And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.

Jeremiah 38:27
H5046

Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

Daniel 4:7
H560

Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.

Daniel 4:8
H560

But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying,

Daniel 7:1
H560

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

Daniel 7:16
H560

I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

Daniel 8:26
H559

And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

Jonah 1:10
H5046

Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

Habakkuk 1:5
H5608

Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

Zechariah 10:2
H1696

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

Matthew 8:33
G518

And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.

Matthew 12:48
G2036

But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

Matthew 14:12
G518

And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.

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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