To know
יְדַעStrong’s H3046yeda (ye-da)
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yeda is the Aramaic word usually translated “known”, “knowing” and “make known to me”. It appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.”
Meaning
- To know(P'al) to know · (Aphel) to let someone know, communicate, inform, cause to know
How it's translated
- known 4
- knowing 4
- to make known to me 4
- you will know 4
- making known 3
- know 2
- you will make known to me 2
- he made known 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 33
- Ezra 9
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:8In contextThe king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
- Daniel 2:9In contextBut if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 2:15In contextHe answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
- Daniel 2:17In contextThen Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
- Daniel 2:21In contextAnd he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
- Daniel 2:22In contextHe revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
Aramaic dictionary
יְדַע yeda · to know
1) to know 1a) (P'al) to know 1b) (Aphel) to let someone know, communicate, inform, cause to know
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.]
- To perceive with certainty; to understand clearly; to have a clear and certain perception of truth, fact, or any thing that actually exists.
- To be informed of; to be taught.
- To distinguish; as, to know one man from another.
- To recognize by recollection, remembrance, representation or description.
All definitions and other forms of “know”
- To be no stranger to; to be familiar.
- In scripture, to have sexual commerce with. Genesis 4:9
- To approve.“The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous” Psalms 1:6
- To learn. Proverbs 1:2
- To acknowledge with due respect. 1 Thessalonians 5:2
- To choose; to favor or take an interest in. Amos 3:10
- To commit; to have.
- To have full assurance of; to have satisfactory evidence of any thing, though short of certainty.
KNOW, verb intransitive
no.
- 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
- To be informed.
- 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.