To learn
לָמַדStrong’s H3925lamad (la-mad)
Appears in 80 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lamad is the Hebrew word usually translated “teach me”, “learn” and “teach”. It appears in 80 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.”
Meaning
- To learn. teach, exercise in(Qal) to learn · (Piel) to teach · (Pual) to be taught, be trained
How it's translated
- teach me 9
- they will learn 5
- to teach 5
- trained 3
- they will teach 2
- trained of 2
- and they taught 2
- and teach me 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 27
- Deuteronomy 16
- Jeremiah 10
- Isaiah 8
- 2 Samuel 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 4:1Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
- Deuteronomy 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:10Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
- Deuteronomy 4:14And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 5:1And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
- Deuteronomy 5:31But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
All 80 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
לָמַד lamad · to learn
: teach 1) to learn. teach, exercise in 1a) (Qal) to learn 1b) (Piel) to teach 1c) (Pual) to be taught, be trained Also means: la.mad (לָמַד ": learn" H3925H)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “learn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEARN, verb transitive
lern.
- To gain knowledge of; to acquire knowledge or ideas of something before unknown.“Now learn a parable of the fig tree” Matthew 24:32
- To acquire skill in any thing; to gain by practice a faculty of performing; as, to learn to play on a flute or an organ.
- To teach; to communicate the knowledge of something before unknown.
All definitions and other forms of “learn”
LEARN, verb intransitive
lern.
- To gain or receive knowledge; to receive instruction; to take pattern; with of.“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly -” Matthew 11:29
- To receive information or intelligence.
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.