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Strong's #3045: yada` (pronounced yaw-dah')

a primitive root; to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow):--acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yâda‛

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 946 times:

1 Samuel 20:30: "of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son"
1 Samuel 20:33: "at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of"
1 Samuel 20:39: "But the lad knew any thing: only Jonathan and David knew"
1 Samuel 20:39: "only Jonathan and David knew the matter."
1 Samuel 21:2: "unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout"
1 Samuel 21:2: "send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such"
1 Samuel 22:3: "I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God"
1 Samuel 22:6: "heard David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul"
1 Samuel 22:15: "of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less"
1 Samuel 22:17: "is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not"
1 Samuel 22:22: "And David said I knew it that day, when Doeg"
1 Samuel 23:9: "And David knew Saul secretly practiced mischief against him; and he said"
1 Samuel 23:17: "also Saul my father knoweth."
1 Samuel 23:22: "I pray you, yet, and know and see his place where"
1 Samuel 23:23: "See therefore, and take knowledge the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again"
1 Samuel 24:11: "of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil"
1 Samuel 24:20: "And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel"
1 Samuel 25:11: "and give it unto men, whom I know not whence"
1 Samuel 25:17: "Now therefore know what thou wilt do; for evil is determined"
1 Samuel 26:4: "David therefore sent out and understood that Saul was come in"
1 Samuel 26:12: "and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all"
1 Samuel 28:1: "said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with"
1 Samuel 28:1: "said unto David, Know thou assuredly, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with"
1 Samuel 28:2: "Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do."
1 Samuel 28:9: "him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done,"
1 Samuel 28:14: "is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped"
1 Samuel 28:15: "by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do."
1 Samuel 29:9: "to David, I know that thou art good in my sight,"
2 Samuel 1:5: "the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son"
2 Samuel 1:10: "upon him, because I was sure that he could not live after that"
2 Samuel 2:26: "Shall the sword devour forever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness"
2 Samuel 3:25: " Thou knowest the son of Ner, that he came to deceive"
2 Samuel 3:25: "that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know"
2 Samuel 3:25: "thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou"
2 Samuel 3:26: "which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not."
2 Samuel 3:37: "the people Israel understood that day that it was"
2 Samuel 3:38: "said his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man"
2 Samuel 5:12: "And David perceived the LORD had established him king over Israel,"
2 Samuel 7:20: "unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant."
2 Samuel 7:21: "these great things, to make thy servant know"
2 Samuel 11:16: "Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant"
2 Samuel 11:20: "ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from"
2 Samuel 12:22: "for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?"
2 Samuel 14:1: "Now Joab the son perceived that the king's heart was toward"
2 Samuel 14:20: "according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth."
2 Samuel 14:22: "said, Today thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight,"
2 Samuel 15:11: "out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing."
2 Samuel 17:8: "For, said Hushai, knowest thy father and his men, that"
2 Samuel 17:10: "shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father"
2 Samuel 17:19: "thereon; and the thing was not known."









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