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tell

Meaning of “tell”

1. To speak, relate, declare, report, inform, explain, reveal, recount, or make known. 2. To know, discern, or determine, especially in 'cannot tell' or 'who can tell.' 3. To count, number, or enumerate.

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217 occurrences208 verses35 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 12:18

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Psalms 48:12
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 48:12 · retained source text

Walke about Sion, and goe round about her: tell the towres thereof.

Psalms 48:13
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 48:13 · retained source text

Marke yee well her bulwarkes, consider her palaces; that yee may tell it to the generation following.

1611 marginal noteHeb. set your heart to her bulwarkes.

1611 marginal noteOr, raise vp.

Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 50:12 · retained source text

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fulnesse thereof.

1611 marginal noteExod. 19.5. deut. 10.14. psal. 24.1.

1611 marginal noteIob 41. 2. 1.cor.10.23,26.

Proverbs 30:4
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Proverbs 30:4 · retained source text

Who hath ascended vp into heauen, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his sonnes name, if thou canst tell?

1611 marginal noteIohn. 3.13. iob.38.4. psal.104.3 isa. 40.12.

Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 6:12 · retained source text

For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the dayes of his vaine life, which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shal be after him vnder the sunne?

1611 marginal noteHeb. the number of the dayes of the life of his vanitie.

1611 marginal notePsal. 144.4.

Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 8:7 · retained source text

For hee knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him, when it shall be?

1611 marginal noteOr, how it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 10:14
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 10:14 · retained source text

A foole also is full of words; a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall bee after him who can tell him?

1611 marginal noteHeb. multiplieth words.

1611 marginal noteProu. 15.2.

1611 marginal noteChap.3.21. and 6.12.

Ecclesiastes 10:20
¶ Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 10:20 · retained source text

¶ Curse not the king, no not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber: for a bird of the aire shall carry the voyce, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

1611 marginal noteOr, conscience.

1611 marginal noteExod.22.28.

Song of Solomon 1:7
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Song of Solomon 1:7 · retained source text

Tell me, (O thou whom my soule loueth) where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flocke to rest at noone: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flockes of thy companions?

1611 marginal noteOr, as one that is vailed.

Song of Solomon 5:8
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Song of Solomon 5:8 · retained source text

I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, if ye find my beloued, that yee tell him, that I am sicke of loue.

1611 marginal noteHeb. what.

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