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יָדַע

ya.dato knowHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb946 occurrences35 books874 verses

Definition

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.)
Traditional renderings: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, × 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, × prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), × will be, wist, wit, wot.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יָדַע:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

946 total
  1. Isaiah 49:26וְיָדְע֣וּ · will know
    I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
  2. Isaiah 50:4לָדַ֛עַת
    The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
  3. Isaiah 50:7וָאֵדַ֖ע · and I know
    Because the Lord GOD helps Me, I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
  4. Isaiah 51:7יֹ֣דְעֵי · you who know
    Listen to Me, you who know what is right, you people with My law in your hearts: Do not fear the scorn of men; do not be broken by their insults.
  5. Isaiah 52:6יֵדַ֥ע · will know
    Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
  6. Isaiah 53:3וִיד֣וּעַ · acquainted
    He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
  7. Isaiah 55:5תֵדַע֙ · know; יְדָע֖וּךָ · know you
    Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”
  8. Isaiah 56:10יָדָ֔עוּ · oblivious
    Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
  9. Isaiah 56:11יָֽדְעוּ֙ · satisfied; יָדְע֖וּ · with
    Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:
  10. Isaiah 58:3תֵדָ֑ע · noticed
    “Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
  11. Isaiah 59:8יָדָ֔עוּ · known; יָדַ֖ע · will know
    The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
  12. Isaiah 59:12יְדַֽעֲנֽוּם׃ · and we know
    For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:
  13. Isaiah 60:16וְיָדַ֗עַתְּ · you will know
    You will drink the milk of nations and nurse at the breasts of royalty; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
  14. Isaiah 61:9וְנוֹדַ֤ע · will be known
    Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.
  15. Isaiah 63:16יְדָעָ֔נוּ · know us
    Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
  16. Isaiah 64:2לְהוֹדִ֥יעַ · known
    …as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
  17. Isaiah 66:14וְנוֹדְעָ֤ה · will be revealed
    When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.
  18. Jeremiah 1:5יְדַעְתִּ֔יךָ · I knew you
    “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
  19. Jeremiah 1:6יָדַ֖עְתִּי · know
    “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
  20. Jeremiah 2:8יְדָע֔וּנִי · longer knew Me
    The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
  21. Jeremiah 2:19וּדְעִ֤י · Consider
    Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  22. Jeremiah 2:23דְּעִ֖י · acknowledge
    “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
  23. Jeremiah 3:13דְּעִ֣י · acknowledge
    Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
  24. Jeremiah 4:22יָדָ֔עוּ · known Me; יָדָֽעוּ׃ · but they know
    “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
  25. Jeremiah 5:1וּדְעוּ֙ · and take note
    “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
  26. Jeremiah 5:4יָדְעוּ֙ · know
    Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
  27. Jeremiah 5:5יָדְעוּ֙ · know
    I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
  28. Jeremiah 5:15תֵדַ֣ע · know
    Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
  29. Jeremiah 6:15יָדָ֔עוּ · know
    Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.
  30. Jeremiah 6:18וּדְעִ֥י · and learn
    Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them.
  31. Jeremiah 6:27וְתֵדַ֕ע · so you may know
    “I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.
  32. Jeremiah 7:9יְדַעְתֶּֽם׃ · known
    Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
  33. Jeremiah 8:7יָֽדְעָה֙ · knows; יָֽדְע֔וּ · know
    Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
  34. Jeremiah 8:12יָדָ֔עוּ · know how
    Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
  35. Jeremiah 9:3יָדָ֖עוּ · take Me into account
    “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
  36. Jeremiah 9:6דַֽעַת־ · to know
    You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
  37. Jeremiah 9:16יָֽדְע֔וּ · have known
    I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
  38. Jeremiah 9:24וְיָדֹ֣עַ · and knows
    But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
  39. Jeremiah 10:23יָדַ֣עְתִּי · I know
    I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
  40. Jeremiah 10:25יְדָע֔וּךָ · acknowledge You
    Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
  41. Jeremiah 11:18הֽוֹדִיעַ֖נִי · informed me; וָֽאֵדָ֑עָה · so I knew
    And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.
  42. Jeremiah 11:19יָדַ֜עְתִּי · know
    For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
  43. Jeremiah 12:3יְדַעְתָּ֔נִי · know me
    But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
  44. Jeremiah 13:12הֲיָדֹ֙עַ֙ · surely
    Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every wineskin shall be filled with wine.’ And when they reply, ‘Don’t we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’