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)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 874 verses
- 1 Samuel 25:17 דְּעִ֤י
Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
- 1 Samuel 26:4 וַיֵּ֕דַע
David sent out spies to verify that Saul had arrived.
- 1 Samuel 26:12 יוֹדֵ֜עַ
So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
- 1 Samuel 28:1 יָדֹ֣עַתֵּדַ֗ע
Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”
- 1 Samuel 28:2 תֵדַ֔ע
David replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”
- 1 Samuel 28:9 יָדַ֙עְתָּ֙
But the woman replied, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”
- 1 Samuel 28:14 וַיֵּ֤דַע
“What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “And he is wearing a robe.” So Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed facedown in reverence.
- 1 Samuel 28:15 לְהוֹדִיעֵ֖נִי
Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am deeply distressed,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has turned away from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”
- 1 Samuel 29:9 יָדַ֕עְתִּי
Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
- 2 Samuel 1:5 יָדַ֔עְתָּ
Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
- 2 Samuel 1:10 יָדַ֔עְתִּי
So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”
- 2 Samuel 2:26 יָדַ֔עְתָּה
Then Abner called out to Joab: “Must the sword devour forever? Do you not realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers?”
- 2 Samuel 3:25 יָדַ֙עְתָּ֙וְלָדַ֜עַתוְלָדַ֕עַת
Surely you realize that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you and to track your movements and all that you are doing.”
- 2 Samuel 3:26 יָדָֽע׃
As soon as Joab had left David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David was unaware of it.
- 2 Samuel 3:37 וַיֵּדְע֧וּ
So on that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.
- 2 Samuel 3:38 תֵדְע֔וּ
Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great prince has fallen today in Israel?
- 2 Samuel 5:12 וַיֵּ֣דַע
And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.
- 2 Samuel 7:20 יָדַ֥עְתָּ
What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD.
- 2 Samuel 7:21 לְהוֹדִ֖יעַ
For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.
- 2 Samuel 11:16 יָדַ֔ע
So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he saw the strongest enemy soldiers.
- 2 Samuel 11:20 יְדַעְתֶּ֔ם
if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
- 2 Samuel 12:22 יוֹדֵ֔עַ
David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
- 2 Samuel 14:1 וַיֵּ֖דַע
Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 14:20 לָדַ֖עַת
Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
- 2 Samuel 14:22 יָדַ֨ע
Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
- 2 Samuel 15:11 יָדְע֖וּ
Two hundred men from Jerusalem accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and they went along innocently, for they knew nothing about the matter.
- 2 Samuel 17:8 יָ֠דַעְתָּ
He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
- 2 Samuel 17:10 יֹדֵ֤עַ
Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.
- 2 Samuel 17:19 נוֹדַ֖ע
Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
- 2 Samuel 18:29 יָדַ֖עְתִּי
The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”
- 2 Samuel 19:6 יָדַ֣עְתִּי
You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
- 2 Samuel 19:20 יָדַ֣ע
For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
- 2 Samuel 19:22 יָדַ֔עְתִּי
And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
- 2 Samuel 19:35 הַאֵדַ֣ע׀
I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
- 2 Samuel 22:44 יָדַ֖עְתִּי
You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
- 2 Samuel 24:2 וְיָ֣דַעְתִּ֔י
So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
- 2 Samuel 24:13 דַּ֣ע
So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
- 1 Kings 1:4 יְדָעָֽהּ׃
The girl was unsurpassed in beauty; she cared for the king and served him, but he had no relations with her.
- 1 Kings 1:11 יָדָֽע׃
Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?
- 1 Kings 1:18 יָדָֽעְתָּ׃
But now, behold, Adonijah has become king, and you, my lord the king, did not know it.
- 1 Kings 1:27 הוֹדַ֙עְתָּ֙
Has my lord the king let this happen without informing your servant who should sit on the throne after my lord the king?”
- 1 Kings 2:5 יָדַ֡עְתָּ
Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.
- 1 Kings 2:9 וְיָֽדַעְתָּ֙
Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You know what you ought to do to him to bring his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”
- 1 Kings 2:15 יָדַ֙עַתְּ֙
“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.
- 1 Kings 2:32 יָדָ֑ע
The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
- 1 Kings 2:37 יָדֹ֥עַתֵּדַ֖ע
On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”
- 1 Kings 2:42 יָדֹ֥עַתֵּדַ֖ע
the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and warn you, ‘On the day you leave and go elsewhere, know for sure that you will die’? And you told me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will comply.’
- 1 Kings 2:44 יָדַ֙עְתָּ֙יָדַע֙
The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.
- 1 Kings 3:7 אֵדַ֖ע
And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.
- 1 Kings 5:3 יָדַ֜עְתָּ
“As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.