יָדַע
ya.da
1. to know
a. (Qal)
1. to know
a. to know, learn to know
b. to perceive
c. to perceive and see, find out and discern
d. to discriminate, distinguish
e. to know by experience
f. to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess
g. to consider
2. to know, be acquainted with
3. to know (a person carnally)
4. to know how, be skilful in
5. to have knowledge, be wise
b. (Niphal)
1. to be made known, be or become known, be revealed
2. to make oneself known
3. to be perceived
4. to be instructed
c. (Piel) to cause to know
d. (Poal) to cause to know
e. (Pual)
1. to be known
2. known, one known, acquaintance (participle)
f. (Hiphil) to make known, declare
g. (Hophal) to be made known
h. (Hithpael) to make oneself known, reveal oneself
Aramaic equivalent: ye.da (יְדַע "to know" H3046)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 874 verses
- Proverbs 17:27 יוֹדֵ֣עַ
A man of knowledge restrains his words, and a man of understanding maintains a calm spirit.
- Proverbs 22:19 הוֹדַעְתִּ֖יךָ
So that your trust may be in the LORD, I instruct you today—yes, you.
- Proverbs 22:21 לְהוֹדִֽיעֲךָ֗
to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?
- Proverbs 23:35 יָ֫דָ֥עְתִּי
“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
- Proverbs 24:12 יָדַ֪עְנ֫וּיֵדָ֑ע
If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?
- Proverbs 24:14 דְּעֶ֥ה
Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
- Proverbs 24:22 יוֹדֵֽעַ׃ס
For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?
- Proverbs 27:1 תֵ֝דַ֗ע
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
- Proverbs 27:23 יָדֹ֣עַתֵּ֭דַע
Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;
- Proverbs 28:2 יֹ֝דֵ֗עַ
A land in rebellion has many rulers, but a man of understanding and knowledge maintains order.
- Proverbs 28:22 יֵ֝דַע
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
- Proverbs 29:7 יֹדֵ֣עַ
The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
- Proverbs 30:3 אֵדָֽע׃
I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.
- Proverbs 30:4 תֵדָֽע׃
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!
- Proverbs 30:18 יְדַעְתִּֽים׃
There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:
- Proverbs 31:23 נוֹדָ֣ע
Her husband is known at the city gate, where he sits among the elders of the land.
- Ecclesiastes 1:17 לָדַ֣עַתוְדַ֥עַתיָדַ֕עְתִּי
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14 וְיָדַ֣עְתִּי
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
- Ecclesiastes 2:19 יוֹדֵ֗עַ
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 3:12 יָדַ֕עְתִּי
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live,
- Ecclesiastes 3:14 יָדַ֗עְתִּי
I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.
- Ecclesiastes 3:21 יוֹדֵ֗עַ
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
- Ecclesiastes 4:13 יָדַ֥ע
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
- Ecclesiastes 5:1 יוֹדְעִ֖ים
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Ecclesiastes 6:5 יָדָ֑ע
The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
- Ecclesiastes 6:8 יוֹדֵ֔עַ
What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
- Ecclesiastes 6:10 וְנוֹדָ֖ע
Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12 יוֹדֵעַ֩
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 7:22 יָדַ֣ע
For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
- Ecclesiastes 7:25 לָדַ֣עַתוְלָדַ֙עַת֙
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
- Ecclesiastes 8:1 יוֹדֵ֖עַ
Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.
- Ecclesiastes 8:5 יֵדַ֖עיֵדַ֖ע
Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.
- Ecclesiastes 8:7 יֹדֵ֖עַ
Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
- Ecclesiastes 8:12 יוֹדֵ֣עַ
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.
- Ecclesiastes 8:16 לָדַ֣עַת
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
- Ecclesiastes 8:17 לָדַ֔עַת
I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
- Ecclesiastes 9:1 יוֹדֵ֙עַ֙
So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5 יוֹדְעִ֖יםיוֹדְעִ֣ים
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
- Ecclesiastes 9:11 לַיֹּדְעִ֖ים
I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 יֵדַ֨ע
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- Ecclesiastes 10:14 יֵדַ֤ע
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
- Ecclesiastes 10:15 יָדַ֖ע
The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
- Ecclesiastes 11:2 תֵדַ֔ע
Divide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.
- Ecclesiastes 11:5 יוֹדֵ֙עַ֙תֵדַע֙
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
- Ecclesiastes 11:6 יוֹדֵ֜ע
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 וְדָ֕ע
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
- Song of Solomon 1:8 תֵדְעִי֙
If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
- Song of Solomon 6:12 יָדַ֔עְתִּי
Before I realized it, my desire had set me among the royal chariots of my people.
- Isaiah 1:3 יָדַ֥עיָדַ֔ע
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
- Isaiah 5:5 אוֹדִֽיעָה־
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.