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יָדַע

ya.daH3045

to 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.

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 · 151–200 of 945 · BSB

  1. Deuteronomy 11:28יְדַעְתֶּֽם סyou have known

    but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

  2. Deuteronomy 13:2יְדַעְתָּ֖םyou have known them

    and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”

  3. Deuteronomy 13:3לָדַ֗עַתto know

    you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

  4. Deuteronomy 13:6יָדַ֔עְתָּyou have known

    If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,

  5. Deuteronomy 13:13יְדַעְתֶּֽםyou have known

    that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),

  6. Deuteronomy 18:21נֵדַ֣עwill we know

    You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

  7. Deuteronomy 20:20תֵּדַ֗עyou will know

    But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.

  8. Deuteronomy 21:1נוֹדַ֖עit is known

    If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

  9. Deuteronomy 22:2יְדַעְתּ֑וֹyou know him

    If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him.

  10. Deuteronomy 28:33יָדָ֑עְתָּyou have known

    A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

  11. Deuteronomy 28:36יָדַ֖עְתָּyou have known

    The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

  12. Deuteronomy 28:64יָדַ֛עְתָּyou have known

    Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

  13. Deuteronomy 29:4לָדַ֔עַתto know

    Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

  14. Deuteronomy 29:6תֵּֽדְע֔וּyou may know

    You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

  15. Deuteronomy 29:16יְדַעְתֶּ֔םyou know

    For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.

  16. Deuteronomy 29:26יְדָע֔וּםthey had known them

    They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

  17. Deuteronomy 31:13יָדְע֗וּthey have known

    Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

  18. Deuteronomy 31:21יָדַ֣עְתִּיI know

    And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”

  19. Deuteronomy 31:27יָדַ֙עְתִּי֙I know

    For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

  20. Deuteronomy 31:29יָדַ֗עְתִּיI know

    For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”

  21. Deuteronomy 32:17יְדָע֑וּםthey had known them

    They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

  22. Deuteronomy 33:9יָדָ֑עhe acknowledged

    He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.

  23. Deuteronomy 34:6יָדַ֥עhe knows

    And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows the location of his grave.

  24. Deuteronomy 34:10יְדָע֣וֹhe knew him

    Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—

  25. Joshua 2:4יָדַ֖עְתִּיI knew

    But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.

  26. Joshua 2:5יָדַ֔עְתִּיI know

    At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”

  27. Joshua 2:9יָדַ֕עְתִּיI know

    and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.

  28. Joshua 3:4תֵּֽדְעוּ֙you may know

    But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”

  29. Joshua 3:7יֵֽדְע֔וּןthey will know !

    Now the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

  30. Joshua 3:10תֵּֽדְע֔וּןyou will know !

    He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

  31. Joshua 4:22וְהוֹדַעְתֶּ֖םand you will make known to

    you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

  32. Joshua 4:24דַּ֜עַתto know

    He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.”

  33. Joshua 8:14יָדַ֔עhe knew

    When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.

  34. Joshua 14:6יָדַ֡עְתָּyou know

    Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.

  35. Joshua 22:22יֹדֵ֔עַ[is] knowing

    “The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.

  36. Joshua 22:22יֵדָ֑עlet it know

    “The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.

  37. Joshua 22:31יָדַ֙עְנוּ֙we know

    Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against Him. Consequently, you have delivered the Israelites from the hand of the LORD.”

  38. Joshua 23:13יָד֙וֹעַ֙certainly <to know>

    know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

  39. Joshua 23:13תֵּֽדְע֔וּyou will know

    know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

  40. Joshua 23:14וִידַעְתֶּ֞םand you know

    Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.

  41. Joshua 24:31יָדְע֗וּthey knew

    Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.

  42. Judges 2:10יָֽדְעוּ֙they knew

    After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.

  43. Judges 3:1יָדְע֔וּthey had known

    These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,

  44. Judges 3:2דַּ֚עַתto know

    if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:

  45. Judges 3:2יְדָעֽוּםthey had known them

    if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:

  46. Judges 3:4לָדַ֗עַתto know

    These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.

  47. Judges 6:37וְיָדַעְתִּ֗יand I will know

    then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”

  48. Judges 8:16וַיֹּ֣דַעand he taught

    Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.

  49. Judges 11:39יָדְעָ֣הshe had known

    After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel

  50. Judges 13:16יָדַ֣עhe knew

    And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.

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