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To know

יָדַעStrong’s H3045

yada (ya-da)

Appears in 873 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yada is the Hebrew word usually translated “know”, “knowing” and “knows”. It appears in 873 verses of the Old Testament.

“Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.”
Daniel 1:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. To know(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) to cause to know · (Poal) to cause to know · (Pual)
How it's translated
  • i know 73
  • and you will know 59
  • and they will know 52
  • you know 50
  • knowing 39
  • to know 37
  • he knows 32
  • they know 28

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 97
  • Psalms 91
  • Job 69
  • Isaiah 65
  • Jeremiah 62
  • Genesis 52

35 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 873 verses, by book
Song of Solomon 2
1:86:12
Micah 3
3:14:126:5
Nahum 2
1:73:17
Habakkuk 2
2:143:2
Zephaniah 1
3:5
Malachi 1
2:4
Hebrew dictionary

יָדַע yada · to know

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) …

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “know” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

KNOW, verb transitive

no. preterit tense knew; participle passive known. [Latin nosco, cognosco, Gr. although much varied in orthography. Nosco makes novi, which, with g or c prefixed, gnovi or cnovi, would coincide with know knew. So Latin cresco, crevi, coincides with grow, grew. The radical sense of knowing is generally to take, receive, or hold.]

  1. To perceive with certainty; to understand clearly; to have a clear and certain perception of truth, fact, or any thing that actually exists.
  2. To be informed of; to be taught.
  3. To distinguish; as, to know one man from another.
  4. To recognize by recollection, remembrance, representation or description.
All definitions and other forms of “know”
  1. To be no stranger to; to be familiar.
  2. In scripture, to have sexual commerce with. Genesis 4:9
  3. To approve.“The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous” Psalms 1:6
  4. To learn. Proverbs 1:2
  5. To acknowledge with due respect. 1 Thessalonians 5:2
  6. To choose; to favor or take an interest in. Amos 3:10
  7. To commit; to have.
  8. To have full assurance of; to have satisfactory evidence of any thing, though short of certainty.

KNOW, verb intransitive

no.

  1. To have clear and certain perception; not to be doubtful; sometimes with of.“If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself” John 7:17
  2. To be informed.
  3. To take cognizance of; to examine.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.