told

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TOLD, preterit tense and participle passive of tell. Who told thee that thou wast naked? Genesis 3:11. Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judges 16:2. --Sheep and oxen that could not be told 1 Kings 8:5.
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