Bible Dictionary · T
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.”
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
