Keraia
Lexicon

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

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

946 total
  1. Deuteronomy 11:28יְדַעְתֶּֽם׃ס · known
    …but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
  2. Deuteronomy 13:2יְדַעְתָּ֖ם · known
    …and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”
  3. Deuteronomy 13:3לָדַ֗עַת · to find out
    …you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  4. Deuteronomy 13:6יָדַ֔עְתָּ · have known
    If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
  5. Deuteronomy 13:13יְדַעְתֶּֽם׃ · known
    …that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
  6. Deuteronomy 18:21נֵדַ֣ע · can we recognize
    You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
  7. Deuteronomy 20:20תֵּדַ֗ע · you know
    But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
  8. Deuteronomy 21:1נוֹדַ֖ע · known
    If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
  9. Deuteronomy 22:2יְדַעְתּ֑וֹ · know who he is
    If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him.
  10. Deuteronomy 28:33יָדָ֑עְתָּ · know
    A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
  11. Deuteronomy 28:36יָדַ֖עְתָּ · have known
    The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
  12. Deuteronomy 28:64יָדַ֛עְתָּ · have known
    Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
  13. Deuteronomy 29:4לָדַ֔עַת · to understand
    Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
  14. Deuteronomy 29:6תֵּֽדְע֔וּ · you might know
    You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
  15. Deuteronomy 29:16יְדַעְתֶּ֔ם · know
    For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
  16. Deuteronomy 29:26יְדָע֔וּם · known
    They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.
  17. Deuteronomy 31:13יָדְע֗וּ · know [the law]
    Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  18. Deuteronomy 31:21יָדַ֣עְתִּי · I know
    And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”
  19. Deuteronomy 31:27יָדַ֙עְתִּי֙ · know
    For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
  20. Deuteronomy 31:29יָדַ֗עְתִּי · I know
    For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”
  21. Deuteronomy 32:17יְדָע֑וּם · known
    They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
  22. Deuteronomy 33:9יָדָ֑ע · know
    He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.
  23. Deuteronomy 34:6יָדַ֥ע · knows
    And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows the location of his grave.
  24. Deuteronomy 34:10יְדָע֣וֹ · knew
    Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—
  25. Joshua 2:4יָדַ֖עְתִּי · know
    But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
  26. Joshua 2:5יָדַ֔עְתִּי · know
    At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”
  27. Joshua 2:9יָדַ֕עְתִּי · I know
    …and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.
  28. Joshua 3:4תֵּֽדְעוּ֙ · you can see
    But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”
  29. Joshua 3:7יֵֽדְע֔וּן · they may know
    Now the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.
  30. Joshua 3:10תֵּֽדְע֔וּן · you will know
    He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
  31. Joshua 4:22וְהוֹדַעְתֶּ֖ם · you are to tell
    …you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
  32. Joshua 4:24דַּ֜עַת · may know
    He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.”
  33. Joshua 8:14יָדַ֔ע · know
    When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.
  34. Joshua 14:6יָדַ֡עְתָּ · know
    Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.
  35. Joshua 22:22יֹדֵ֔עַ · knows; יֵדָ֑ע · also know
    “The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.
  36. Joshua 22:31יָדַ֙עְנוּ֙ · we know
    Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against Him. Consequently, you have delivered the Israelites from the hand of the LORD.”
  37. Joshua 23:13יָד֙וֹעַ֙ · know for sure; תֵּֽדְע֔וּ
    …know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
  38. Joshua 23:14וִידַעְתֶּ֞ם · and you know
    Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
  39. Joshua 24:31יָדְע֗וּ · who had experienced
    Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.
  40. Judges 2:10יָֽדְעוּ֙ · know
    After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.
  41. Judges 3:1יָדְע֔וּ · known
    These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
  42. Judges 3:2דַּ֚עַת; יְדָעֽוּם׃ · known it
    …if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
  43. Judges 3:4לָדַ֗עַת · to find out
    These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
  44. Judges 6:37וְיָדַעְתִּ֗י · then I will know
    …then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
  45. Judges 8:16וַיֹּ֣דַע · he disciplined
    Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.
  46. Judges 11:39יָדְעָ֣ה · had relations
    After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
  47. Judges 13:16יָדַ֣ע · know [that]
    And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.