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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. Jeremiah 13:12נֵדַ֔ע · know
    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?’
  2. Jeremiah 14:18יָדָֽעוּ׃ס · know
    If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
  3. Jeremiah 14:20יָדַ֧עְנוּ · We acknowledge
    We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
  4. Jeremiah 15:14יָדָ֑עְתָּ · know
    Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”
  5. Jeremiah 15:15יָדַ֣עְתָּ · understand; דַּ֕ע · Know that
    You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.
  6. Jeremiah 16:13יְדַעְתֶּ֔ם · have known
    So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
  7. Jeremiah 16:21מֽוֹדִיעָ֔ם · I will inform them; אוֹדִיעֵ֥ם · I will make them know; וְיָדְע֖וּ · then they will know
    “Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.
  8. Jeremiah 17:4יָדָ֑עְתָּ · know
    And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”
  9. Jeremiah 17:9יֵדָעֶֽנּוּ׃ · can understand it
    The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
  10. Jeremiah 17:16יָדָ֑עְתָּ · know
    But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.
  11. Jeremiah 18:23יָדַ֜עְתָּ · know
    But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
  12. Jeremiah 19:4יְדָע֛וּם · known
    …because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
  13. Jeremiah 22:28יָדָֽעוּ׃ · know
    Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
  14. Jeremiah 24:7לָדַ֣עַת · to know Me
    I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
  15. Jeremiah 26:15יָדֹ֣עַ · know for certain; תֵּדְע֗וּ
    But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upon its residents; for truly the LORD has sent me to speak all these words in your hearing.”
  16. Jeremiah 28:9יִוָּדַע֙ · be recognized
    As for the prophet who prophesies peace, only if the word of the prophet comes true will the prophet be recognized as one the LORD has truly sent.”
  17. Jeremiah 29:11יָדַ֜עְתִּי · know
    For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
  18. Jeremiah 31:19הִוָּ֣דְעִ֔י · I was instructed
    After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
  19. Jeremiah 31:34דְּע֖וּ · Know; יֵדְע֨וּ · know
    No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
  20. Jeremiah 32:8וָאֵדַ֕ע · Then I knew
    Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
  21. Jeremiah 33:3יְדַעְתָּֽם׃ס · know
    Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
  22. Jeremiah 36:19יֵדַ֖ע · and tell
    Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide yourselves and tell no one where you are.”
  23. Jeremiah 38:24יֵדַ֥ע · know
    Then Zedekiah warned Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about this conversation, or you will die.
  24. Jeremiah 40:14הֲיָדֹ֤עַ · Are you aware; תֵּדַע֙
    …and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.
  25. Jeremiah 40:15יֵדָ֑ע · will know it
    Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
  26. Jeremiah 41:4יָדָֽע׃ · yet knew about it
    On the second day after the murder of Gedaliah, when no one yet knew about it,
  27. Jeremiah 42:19יָדֹ֙עַ֙ · Know for sure; תֵּֽדְע֔וּ
    The LORD has told you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for sure that I have warned you today!
  28. Jeremiah 42:22יָדֹ֣עַ · know; תֵּֽדְע֔וּ · for sure
    Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”
  29. Jeremiah 44:3יְדָע֔וּם · ever knew
    …because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.
  30. Jeremiah 44:15הַיֹּֽדְעִים֙ · who knew
    Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women standing by—a great assembly—along with all the people living in the land of Egypt and in Pathros, said to Jeremiah,
  31. Jeremiah 44:28וְֽיָדְע֞וּ · will know
    Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!
  32. Jeremiah 44:29תֵּֽדְע֔וּ · you may know
    This will be a sign to you that I will punish you in this place, declares the LORD, so that you may know that My threats of harm against you will surely stand.
  33. Jeremiah 48:17יֹדְעֵ֣י · who knows
    Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!
  34. Jeremiah 48:30יָדַ֙עְתִּי֙ · know
    I know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.
  35. Jeremiah 50:24יָדָ֑עַתְּ · knew it
    I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.
  36. Ezekiel 2:5וְיָ֣דְע֔וּ · they will know
    And whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.
  37. Ezekiel 5:13וְֽיָדְע֞וּ · they will know
    And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.
  38. Ezekiel 6:7וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם · and you will know
    The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
  39. Ezekiel 6:10וְיָדְע֖וּ · And they will know
    And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.
  40. Ezekiel 6:13וִֽידַעְתֶּם֙ · Then you will know
    Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
  41. Ezekiel 6:14וְיָדְע֖וּ · Then they will know
    I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
  42. Ezekiel 7:4וִידַעְתֶּ֖ם · Then you will know
    I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’