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Tale

(1. ) Heb. This unified study connects 4 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

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Subject type: Subject
Strong’s: H4557, H4971
Hebrew: מִסְפָּר · miçpâr

Strong’s and original-language information

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

מִסְפָּר

H4557

Transliteration: miçpâr
Pronunciation: mis-pawr'
Language: Hebrew
Indexed occurrences: 134

Glosses

number, tale, [phrase] abundance, account, [idiom] all, [idiom] few, (in-) finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, [phrase] time.

Lexicon definition

a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable

small, a few)

also (abstractly) narration

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מַתְכֹ֫נֶת

H4971

Transliteration: mathkôneth
Pronunciation: math-ko'-neth
Language: Hebrew
Indexed occurrences: 5

Glosses

measurement, tale, proportion, composition, measure, state, tale.

Lexicon definition

proportion (in size, number or ingredients)

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Tale

(1.) Heb. tokhen, "a task," as weighed and measured out = tally, i.e., the number told off; the full number (Ex. 5:18; see 1 Sam. 18:27; 1 Chr. 9:28). In Ezek. 45:11 rendered "measure." (2.) Heb. hegeh, "a thought;" "meditation" (Ps. 90:9); meaning properly "as a whisper of sadness," which is soon over, or "as a thought." The LXX. and Vulgate render it "spider;" the Authorized Version and Revised Version, "as a tale" that is told. In Job 37:2 this word is rendered "sound;" Revised Version margin, "muttering;" and in Ezek. 2:10, "mourning."

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources