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To tell

נָגַדStrong’s H5046

nagad (na-gad)

Appears in 345 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Nagad is the Hebrew word usually translated “told”, “tell” and “it was told”. It appears in 345 verses of the Old Testament.

“Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.”
Daniel 2:2 KJV
Meaning
  1. To be conspicuous, tell, make known(Hiphil) to tell, declare · (Hophal) to be told, be announced, be reported
How it's translated
  • and he told 42
  • tell 29
  • and it was told 24
  • and they told 22
  • and people told 17
  • to tell 16
  • and she told 11
  • he told 10

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Samuel 48
  • 2 Samuel 37
  • Genesis 34
  • Isaiah 28
  • Jeremiah 24
  • Judges 23

31 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 345 verses, by book
Leviticus 2
5:114:35
Numbers 2
11:2723:3
1 Chronicles 3
17:1019:519:17
2 Chronicles 4
9:29:620:234:18
Ezra 1
2:59
Proverbs 2
12:1729:24
Ecclesiastes 4
6:128:710:1410:20
Song of Solomon 2
1:75:8
Hosea 1
4:12
Amos 1
4:13
Jonah 2
1:81:10
Micah 3
1:103:86:8
Zechariah 1
9:12
Hebrew dictionary

נָגַד nagad · to tell

1) to be conspicuous, tell, make known 1a) (Hiphil) to tell, declare 1a1) to tell, announce, report 1a2) to declare, make known, expound 1a3) to inform of 1a4) to publish, declare, proclaim 1a5) to avow, acknowledge, confess 1a5a) messenger (participle) 1b) (Hophal) to be told, be announced, be reported

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “tell” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TELL, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive told. [Latin telum; Latin appello and peal, Latin pello.]

  1. To utter; to express in words; to communicate to others.“I will not eat till I have told my errand” Genesis 24:33
  2. To relate; to narrate; to rehearse particulars; as, to tell a story. Genesis 37:16
  3. To teach; to inform; to make known; to show by words. tell us the way.
  4. To discover; to disclose; to betray.“They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land” Numbers 14:14
All definitions and other forms of “tell”
  1. To count; to number.
  2. To relate in confession; to confess or acknowledge.“TELL me now what thou hast done” Joshua 7:19
  3. To publish.“TELL it not in Gath” 2 Samuel 1:20
  4. To unfold; to interpret; to explain. Ezekiel 24:19
  5. To make excuses.
  6. To make known.
  7. To discover; to find; to discern.

TELL, verb intransitive

To give an account; to make report.

  1. “--That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works” Psalms 26:7

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.