356 occurrences

'Tell' in the Bible

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of Deceitdoubt, results ofNot DyingMisrepresentationsisterhood

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningThose Who Did Not Tell

"I do not know who has done this thing," Abimelech replied. "Moreover, you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today."

Verse ConceptsThose Who Did Not Tell

"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?Staying TemporarilyFathers And Daughters

When food was served, he said, "I will not eat until I have said what I want to say." "Tell us," Laban said.

Verse ConceptsDinnerGiving InformationThose Who Provided A Meal

Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way."

Verse ConceptsChanging DirectionGiving InformationTurning To Right And Left

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,

Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

Then Laban said to Jacob, "Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be."

Verse ConceptsBeing FairNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfWagesFree Of Charge

When Jacob saw the look on Laban's face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

Verse ConceptsWorseChange

There he said to them, "I can tell that your father's attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific PeopleWorseChange

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn't you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofMusicTambourinesLyresAvoiding SecrecyOthers Who FledThose Who DeceivedThose Who Did Not Tell

Then Jacob asked, "Please tell me your name." "Why do you ask my name?" the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?What Is God's Name?Blessed By God

He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?

They told him, "We both had dreams, but there is no one to interpret them." Joseph responded, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me."

Verse ConceptsDreamsNo One AvailableTelling Dreams

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning."

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsNo One AvailableTelling DreamsThin Bodies

Now go up to my father quickly and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says: "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Examples OfPeople Who DelayedHurrying Others On

So tell my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!"

Verse ConceptsHurrying Others On

Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, 'My brothers and my father's household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

Tell him, 'Your servants have taken care of cattle from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,' so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for everyone who takes care of sheep is disgusting to the Egyptians."

Verse ConceptsAbominationsWork From YouthThose Who Kept StockHating PeoplesStock Keeping

Jacob called for his sons and said, "Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.

Verse ConceptsPredicting The FutureOthers SummoningTogetherness

Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.' Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father." When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.

Verse ConceptsAsking for forgivenessAskingForgive One AnotherWronging Other PeopleGod's ForgivenessLove And Forgivenessforgivingdisobedience

Moses said to God, "If I go to the Israelites and tell them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' -- what should I say to them?"

Verse ConceptsMoses, Life OfI Am The LordGod Sending ProphetsWhat Is God's Name?

"Go and bring together the elders of Israel and tell them, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, appeared to me -- the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -- saying, "I have attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt,

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersWatchfulness, DivineAssembling LeadersGod AppearingGod Paid Attention To ThemThe Elders GatheredThe Elderly

"The elders will listen to you, and then you and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.'

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessPaying Attention To People

Therefore, tell the Israelites, 'I am the Lord. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As SaviorArmsGod, The LordRedemption, In Everyday LifeStrength, DivineArm Of GodCaptivesStrength Of GodRemoving BurdensI Am The LordGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptRedemptionGod's Interventionliberation

"Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land."

he said to him, "I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you."

Verse ConceptsI Am The LordSpeaking The Word God Gives

You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Position

Tell him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say, "Release my people, that they may serve me in the desert!" But until now you have not listened.

Verse ConceptsA Feast In The WildernessWorshipping God

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over Egypt's waters -- over their rivers, over their canals, over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs -- so that it becomes blood.' There will be blood everywhere in the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers."

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesRivers And StreamsStonesWoodPoolsRodsBucketsStretching OutWater ContainersWood And Stone

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says the Lord: "Release my people in order that they may serve me!

Verse ConceptsPreaching, Content OfServanthood, And Worship Of GodWorshipping God

The Lord spoke to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.'"

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

The Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'"

Verse ConceptsDust, Literal UseInsectsFliesThings Changed

The Lord said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him, 'Thus says the Lord, "Release my people that they may serve me!

Verse ConceptsConfrontationMorningRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyWorshipping God

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people that they may serve me!

Verse ConceptsWorshipping GodProblem People

The Lord said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: "Release my people so that they may serve me!

Verse ConceptsMorningThose Who Rose EarlyWorshipping GodEarly Rising

and in order that in the hearing of your son and your grandson you may tell how I made fools of the Egyptians and about my signs that I displayed among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord."

Verse ConceptsAbominationsBad ParentsExperience, of GodChildren, needs ofHistoryKnowledge, Of GodInstruction Of ChildrenParents Duty To ChildrenYou Will Know I Am The LordTeaching ChildrenTelling Of God

Tell the whole community of Israel, 'In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families -- a lamb for each household.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambLambsFamiliesFamily FirstProtecting Your Family

You are to tell your son on that day, 'It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.'

Verse ConceptsBoysTeaching ChildrenTelling Of God

In the future, when your son asks you 'What is this?' you are to tell him, 'With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodAskingWhat Is This?Groups Of SlavesTeaching ChildrenGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

"Tell the Israelites that they must turn and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you are to camp by the sea before Baal Zephon opposite it.

Verse ConceptsCamping During The ExodusComing To The Red Sea

Then Moses said to Aaron, "Tell the whole community of the Israelites, 'Come before the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings.'"

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsGod HearingGod Paid Attention To Them

"I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them, 'During the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be satisfied with bread, so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.'"

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofBreakfastTwilightIn The MorningGod Paid Attention To Them

Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, "Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchGoing Up Mountains

The Lord said to Moses: "Thus you will tell the Israelites: 'You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.

Verse ConceptsGod SpeakingGod Speaks From Heaven

"Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.

Verse ConceptsGoadsGiving, Of PossessionsHuman WillHeart, And Holy SpiritHeart, HumanOfferingsGenerosity, Used TowardsRight DesiresTithes And OfferingVolunteering

And you are to tell the Israelites: 'This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.

Verse ConceptsAnointing With Oil

"Tell the Israelites, 'Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

Verse ConceptsKnowledge, Of GodSabbath ObservedMaking People Holy

For the Lord had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.'"

Verse ConceptsNecksCharacter Of WickedCosmeticsPeople Stripping OffGod Might Kill His Peoplejewelry

But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded.

Verse ConceptsPeople Stripping OffAddressing SomeoneConversation

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When someone among you presents an offering to the Lord, you must present your offering from the domesticated animals, either from the herd or from the flock.

Verse ConceptsTypes Of ChristHerdsRegulating Sacrifices

"Tell the Israelites, 'When a person sins by straying unintentionally from any of the Lord's commandments which must not be violated, and violates any one of them --

Verse ConceptsSin OfferingUnintentionalIgnorance of God

"Tell Aaron and his sons, 'This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered the sin offering must be slaughtered before the Lord. It is most holy.

Verse ConceptsKilling Sacrifices

"Tell the Israelites, 'You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

Verse ConceptsSheepSanitation, FoodFat Of AnimalsForbidden Food

"Tell the Israelites, 'The one who presents his peace offering sacrifice to the Lord must bring his offering to the Lord from his peace offering sacrifice.

Verse ConceptsPeace offerings

Then tell the Israelites: 'Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless, for a burnt offering,

Verse ConceptsGoatsPerfect SacrificesAnimals At Specific AgesSacrificing GoatsSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

"Tell the Israelites: 'This is the kind of creature you may eat from among all the animals that are on the land.

Verse ConceptsFood DefinedRelation Of Animals To Man

"Tell the Israelites, 'When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation.

Verse ConceptsDefilement, Ceremonial CausesHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPurity, Nature OfSevenSeven DaysBleedingBirthSeven Days For Legal Purposes

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationDischarges

"Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites, and tell them: 'This is the word that the Lord has commanded:

Verse ConceptsGod's Orders

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'I am the Lord your God!

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Is God

"Tell Aaron, 'No man from your descendants throughout their generations who has a physical flaw is to approach to present the food of his God.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot Times

"Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites, which they consecrate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name. I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceProfaning God's NameI Am The Lord

"Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them, 'When any man from the house of Israel or from the foreigners in Israel presents his offering for any of the votive or freewill offerings which they present to the Lord as a burnt offering,

Verse ConceptsForeigners Included In The Law

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'These are the Lord's appointed times which you must proclaim as holy assemblies -- my appointed times:

Verse ConceptsFeastsProclaimingConvocationsFestivals Observed

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest to the priest,

Verse ConceptsSpringBinding cornInvasions

"Tell the Israelites, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you must have a complete rest, a memorial announced by loud horn blasts, a holy assembly.

Verse ConceptsNew Year, TheAutumnTrumpetMonth 7Music To CelebrateSabbaths Instituted

"Tell the Israelites, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFeastingMonthNew Year, TheAutumnWeeksMonth 7Seven DaysBooths

Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites, 'If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

Verse ConceptsBearingCursing Godconsequencescurses

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath to the Lord.

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When a man makes a special votive offering based on the conversion value of persons to the Lord,

These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

Verse Conceptscommandments

"Tell the Israelites, 'When a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit, thereby breaking faith with the Lord, and that person is found guilty,

Verse ConceptsMan And Woman

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

"Speak to the Israelites, and tell them, 'When either a man or a woman takes a special vow, to take a vow as a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord,

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Unnatural

"Tell Aaron and his sons, 'This is the way you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

Verse ConceptsBlessingSons Being A Blessing

"Speak to Aaron and tell him, 'When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand.'"

Verse ConceptsSeven LightsLight Of Lamps

"Tell the Israelites, 'If any of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may observe the Passover to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsJourneyRules About Corpses

then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyProtection Day And NightBeing Face To Face With GodObelisksGod Going BeforeGod Appearing In FireHearing About GodGiving InformationGod Is Among You

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you enter the land to which I am bringing you

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them to make tassels for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread on the tassel of the corners.

Verse ConceptsClothGenerationsTasselsFringe Of ClothesBlue CordsGarmentsColorbordersknots

"Tell the community: 'Get away from around the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'"

Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil People

"Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire at a distance.

Verse ConceptsHallowed

"You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them, 'When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up from it as a raised offering to the Lord a tenth of the tithe.

Verse ConceptsTithesTithes And Offering

For I will honor you greatly, and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.'"

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyCursing Israel

Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you." Then he went to a deserted height.

Verse ConceptsHeightKnowing God, Nature OfSpeaking The Word God Gives

Then the Lord put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you."

Verse ConceptsRevelation, In OtSpeaking The Word God GivesRevelation Through Direct Communication

Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you."

Verse ConceptsSpeaking The Word God Gives

But Balaam replied to Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'All that the Lord speaks, I must do'?"

Verse ConceptsSpeaking The Word God Gives

Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

And you must tell the Israelites, 'If a man dies and has no son, then you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter;

Verse ConceptsReal EstateLack Of Sons

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Verse ConceptsCrossing Into The Promised Land

"Give these instructions to the Israelites, and tell them: 'When you enter Canaan, the land that has been assigned to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan with its borders,

Verse Conceptsborders

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you cross over the Jordan River into the land of Canaan,

Verse ConceptsCrossing Into The Promised Land

Bible Theasaurus

Acquaint (1 instance)
Advise (26 instances)
Apprise (4 instances)
Assure (83 instances)
Awaken (17 instances)
Differentiate (6 instances)
Distinguish (23 instances)
Enjoin (13 instances)
Enlighten (10 instances)
Evidence (93 instances)
Impart (19 instances)
Inform (53 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אזן 
'ozen 
Usage: 187

אמר 
'amar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 71

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

ידע 
Yada` 
Usage: 946

מנה 
manah 
Usage: 28

מספּר 
Micpar 
Usage: 132

נגד 
Nagad 
Usage: 370

ספר 
Caphar 
Usage: 161

שׁמע 
Shama` 
Usage: 1158

ἀληθεύω 
Aletheuo 
tell the truth , speak the truth
Usage: 2

ἀναγγέλλω 
Anaggello 
Usage: 13

ἀπαγγέλλω 
Apaggello 
Usage: 40

διασαφέω 
Diasapheo 
Usage: 0

διηγέομαι 
Diegeomai 
Usage: 7

εἴδω 
Eido 
know , cannot tell , know how , wist , , see , behold , look , perceive , vr see , vr know
Usage: 519

ἐκλαλέω 
Eklaleo 
Usage: 1

ἐλέγχω 
Elegcho 
Usage: 12

ἐξηγέομαι 
Exegeomai 
Usage: 6

ἔπω 
Epo 
say , speak , tell , command , bid , , vr say
Usage: 824

ἐρέω 
Ereo 
say , speak , tell , speak of , call
Usage: 41

λαλέω 
Laleo 
speak , say , tell , talk , preach , utter , , vr speak
Usage: 235

λέγω 
Lego 
say , speak , call , tell ,
Usage: 1045

μηνύω 
menuo 
Usage: 3

προέπω 
Proepo 
Usage: 3

προερέω 
Proereo 
Usage: 7

προλέγω 
Prolego 
Usage: 3

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