Word study · Greek
γινώσκω
ginōskōG1097to know
Used 222 times in the tagged text.
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- γινώσκω (= γιγν-: see previous word. So also vulgar Attic, in Inscr., see Thumb, MGV, 207),
- [in LXX chiefly for ידע ;]
- to be taking in knowledge, come to know, recognize, perceive, understand; in past tenses to know, realize; pass., to become known: with accusative, Mat.22:18, Mrk.5:43, Col.4:8, 1Th.3:5, al. Pass., Mat.10:26, Php.4:5, al.; before ὅτι, Mat.21:45, Jhn.4:1, al.; τί, Mat.6:3; ἀπό, Mrk.15:45; ὅ, Rom.7:15; τ. λεγόμενα, Luk.18:34; τ. θέλημα, Luk.12:47; τ. καρδίας, Luk.16:15; with accusative of person(s), of recognition by God, 1Co.8:3, Gal.4:9; by Christ, neg., Mat.7:23; frequently of the knowledge of divine things, of God and Christ; τ. θεόν, Rom.1:21 Gal.4:9; τ. πατέρα, Jhn.8:55; τ. κύριον, Heb.8:1 (LXX); νοῦν κυρίου, Rom.11:34; Χριστόν, Jhn.17:3, 1Jn.3:6; τὰ τοῦ πνεύματος, 1Co.2:14; τ. πνεύμα, 1Jn.4:6; τ. ἀλήθειαν, Jhn.8:32; of Christ's knowledge of the Father (ἐπιγ.), Mat.11:27 (Dalman, Words, 282ff.). In Hellenistic writers [LXX for Heb. ידע, Gal.4:1, al.], of sexual intercourse, to know carnally: Mat.1:25, Luk.1:34 (Cremer, 153).
- SYN.: γ., to know by observation and experience is thus prop. disting. from οἶδα, to know by reflection (a mental process, based on intuition or information); cf. also ἐφίστημι, συνίημι. (Cf. ἀνα-, δια-, ἐπι-, κατα-, προ-γινώσκω.) (AS)
Same idea, other words · Wisdom and knowing
To know in the Bible is more than to possess information: it is to be in relationship. Wisdom is skill for living in God's world.
- חׇכְמָהchokhmah wisdomwisdom, skillH2451
- σοφίαsophia wisdomwisdomG4678
- φρόνησιςphronēsis understandingunderstanding, practical insightG5428
- יָדַעyada to knowto know, including intimate knowingH3045
- γινώσκωginōskō to knowto know, to come to knowG1097
- ἐπίγνωσιςepignōsis knowledgefull knowledge, recognitionG1922
Where it appears
- Matthew20
- Mark12
- Luke28
- John57
- Acts16
- Romans9
- 1 Corinthians16
- 2 Corinthians8
- Galatians4
- Ephesians3
- Philippians5
- Colossians1
- 1 Thessalonians1
- 2 Timothy3
- Hebrews4
- James3
- 2 Peter2
- 1 John25
- 2 John1
- Revelation4
Every use · 101–150 of 222 · BSB
Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.
But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’?
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You.
For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
Once again Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing Him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against Him.”
Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time, “Do you love Me?” “Lord, You know all things,” he replied. “You know I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.
Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”
So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
Eventually, one of the evil spirits answered them, “Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?”
Finally the city clerk quieted the crowd and declared, “Men of Ephesus, doesn’t everyone know that the city of Ephesus is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?
You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.
Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.
Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, and some another. And since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks.
As they were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?” “Do you speak Greek?” he replied.
Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear His voice.
The next day the commander, wanting to learn the real reason Paul was accused by the Jews, released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to assemble. Then he brought Paul down and had him stand before them.
Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;
and the way of peace they have not known.”
We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.
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