יָדַע

ya.da · to know

Hebrew · Strong's H3045 · Verb · Sounds like: yaw-dah' · 945 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

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.); acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, [idiom] 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, [phrase] be learned, [phrase] lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, [idiom] prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), [idiom] will be, wist, wit, wot.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
יָדַע 943 vb. know
Qal
1.
a. know, learn to know
b. perceive
c. perceive and see; find out and discern
d. discriminate, distinguish
e. know by experience
f. recognize, admit, acknowledge, confess
g. consider
h. not know = not expect
2. know a person, be acquainted with
3. know a person carnally, of sexual intercourse
4.
a. know how, to do a thing, be able to do it
b. be skilful in
5. abs. have knowledge, be wise
Niph.
1. be made known, be or become known, of things
2. make oneself known of pers.
3. be perceived
4. be instructed
Pi. cause to know
Pu. known
Hiph. make known, declare
Hoph. made known
Hithp. make oneself known

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Samuel 18:29 יָדַ֖עְתִּי ya.Da'.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    And the king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, even me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.

  2. 2 Samuel 19:6 יָדַ֣עְתִּי ya.Da'.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee. For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nought unto thee: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.

  3. 2 Samuel 19:20 יָדַ֣ע ya.Da' · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

  4. 2 Samuel 19:22 יָדַ֔עְתִּי ya.Da'.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

  5. 2 Samuel 19:35 הַאֵדַ֣ע׀ ha.'e.Da' · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

  6. 2 Samuel 22:44 יָדַ֖עְתִּי ya.Da'.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

  7. 2 Samuel 24:2 וְיָ֣דַעְתִּ֔י ve.Ya.da'.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, Go now to and fro through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the sum of the people.

  8. 2 Samuel 24:13 דַּ֣ע da' · A command to you: simple action

    So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

  9. 1 Kings 1:4 יְדָעָֽהּ׃ ye.da.'Ah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And the damsel was very fair; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

  10. 1 Kings 1:11 יָדָֽע׃ ya.Da' · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Then Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?

  11. 1 Kings 1:18 יָדָֽעְתָּ׃ ya.Da.'e.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and thou, my lord the king, knowest it not:

  12. 1 Kings 1:27 הוֹדַ֙עְתָּ֙ ho.Da'.ta · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not showed unto thy servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

  13. 1 Kings 2:5 יָדַ֡עְתָּ ya.Da'.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

  14. 1 Kings 2:9 וְיָֽדַעְתָּ֙ ve.ya.da'.Ta · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for thou art a wise man; and thou wilt know what thou oughtest to do unto him, and thou shalt bring his hoar head down to Sheol with blood.

  15. 1 Kings 2:15 יָדַ֙עַתְּ֙ ya.Da.'at · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from Jehovah.

  16. 1 Kings 2:32 יָדָ֑ע ya.Da' · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

  17. 1 Kings 2:37 יָדֹ֥עַ ya.Do.a' · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.

  18. 1 Kings 2:37 תֵּדַ֖ע te.Da' · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.

  19. 1 Kings 2:42 יָדֹ֥עַ ya.Do.a' · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not adjure thee by Jehovah, and protest unto thee, saying, Know for certain, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The saying that I have heard is good.

  20. 1 Kings 2:42 תֵּדַ֖ע te.Da' · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not adjure thee by Jehovah, and protest unto thee, saying, Know for certain, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The saying that I have heard is good.

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