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To know

יְדַעStrong’s H3046

yeda (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.”
Daniel 2:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.]

  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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.