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told

Meaning of “told”

Past-tense or past-participial form of tell (to say, relate, inform, count, or make known).

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First occurrence: Genesis 3:11

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2 Chronicles 2:2
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 2:2 · retained source text

And Solomon told out threescore and tenne thousand men to beare burdens, and fourescore thousand to hewe in the mountaine, and three thousand and sixe hundred to ouersee them.

2 Chronicles 5:6
Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 5:6 · retained source text

Also king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled vnto him before the Arke, sacrificed sheepe and oxen, which could not be told nor numbred for multitude.

2 Chronicles 9:2
And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 9:2 · retained source text

And Solomon tolde her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon, which he told her not.

2 Chronicles 9:6
Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 9:6 · retained source text

Howbeit, I beleeued not their wordes, vntill I came, and mine eyes had seene it: and behold, the one halfe of the greatnesse of thy wisedome was not tolde mee: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

2 Chronicles 20:2
Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon-tamar, which is En-gedi.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 20:2 · retained source text

Then there came some that tolde Iehoshaphat, saying, There commeth a great multitude against thee from beyond the Sea on this side Syria, and behold, they bee in Hazazon-Tamar, which is En-gedi.

2 Chronicles 34:18
Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 34:18 · retained source text

Then Shaphan the scribe tolde the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath giuen me a booke. And Shaphan read it before the king.

1611 marginal noteHeb. in it.

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