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 · 601–650 of 945 · BSB
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!
There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:
Her husband is known at the city gate, where he sits among the elders of the land.
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,
I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.
Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.
Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.
Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
Divide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
Before I realized it, my desire had set me among the royal chariots of my people.
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
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