13 occurrences

'Tell' in the Bible

"Tell of it, you who ride on tawny asses, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.

Verse ConceptsDonkeysBackRoadsWalkingTravellersVolunteering

Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; I did not ask him whence he was, and he did not tell me his name;

Verse ConceptsThe Angel Of GodNot Asking OthersWhere From?What Is God's Name?Man Of God

and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion asunder as one tears a kid; and he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanStrength, SpiritualTranceBrawnAnimals Torn To PiecesDeliverance From LionsThose Who Did Not Tell

He scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.

Verse ConceptsFood DecayingThose Who Did Not Tell

And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you; if you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments;

Verse ConceptsClothSevenThirtySeven DaysPeople Giving ClothesPartying

but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments." And they said to him, "Put your riddle, that we may hear it."

Verse ConceptsThirty

And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." And they could not in three days tell what the riddle was.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of AnimalsAnimals Eating PeopleSweetness

On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?"

Verse ConceptsEnticementThe Fourth Day Of The WeekBurning PeopleEnticingBecoming PoorDay 4

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You only hate me, you do not love me; you have put a riddle to my countrymen, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"

Verse ConceptsCryingPeople Mourning CatastropheThose Who Did Not TellHating Individuals

And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Please tell me wherein your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you."

Verse ConceptsTemptressesTying UpWomen's Strength

And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies; please tell me how you might be bound."

Verse ConceptsLying, Examples OfIndividuals Who LiedTying Up

And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me, and told me lies; tell me how you might be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and make it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

Verse ConceptsSpinning And WeavingTying Updreadlocks

(Now the Benjaminites heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, "Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?"

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