Word study · Hebrew
יָדַע
ya.daH3045to know
Used 945 times in the tagged text.
What it means
- to know
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- 1) to know
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to know
- 1a1a) to know, learn to know
- 1a1b) to perceive
- 1a1c) to perceive and see, find out and discern
- 1a1d) to discriminate, distinguish
- 1a1e) to know by experience
- 1a1f) to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess
- 1a1g) to consider
- 1a2) to know, be acquainted with
- 1a3) to know (a person carnally)
- 1a4) to know how, be skilful in
- 1a5) to have knowledge, be wise
- 1b) (Niphal)
- 1b1) to be made known, be or become known, be revealed
- 1b2) to make oneself known
- 1b3) to be perceived
- 1b4) to be instructed
- 1c) (Piel) to cause to know
- 1d) (Poal) to cause to know
- 1e) (Pual)
- 1e1) to be known
- 1e2) known, one known, acquaintance (participle)
- 1f) (Hiphil) to make known, declare
- 1g) (Hophal) to be made known
- 1h) (Hithpael) to make oneself known, reveal oneself
- Aramaic equivalent: ye.da (יְדַע "to know" H3046)
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
- Genesis57
- Exodus45
- Leviticus9
- Numbers17
- Deuteronomy46
- Joshua17
- Judges23
- Ruth7
- 1 Samuel57
- 2 Samuel30
- 1 Kings35
- 2 Kings19
- 1 Chronicles9
- 2 Chronicles20
- Nehemiah9
- Esther8
- Job70
- Psalms93
- Proverbs35
- Ecclesiastes36
- Song of Songs2
- Isaiah74
- Jeremiah74
- Ezekiel99
- Daniel7
- Hosea16
- Joel3
- Amos4
- Jonah6
- Micah3
- Nahum2
- Habakkuk2
- Zephaniah1
- Zechariah9
- Malachi1
Every use · 501–550 of 945 · BSB
I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.
would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.
Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.
Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah
that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.
You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.
My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A song. God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples.
Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
“I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me— along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush— when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O LORD, in the light of Your presence.
Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.
Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.
He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.
For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
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