יָדַע yâdaʻ
Meaning
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.)
In the King James Version: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, [idiom] 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, [phrase] be learned, [phrase] lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, [idiom] prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), [idiom] will be, wist, wit, wot.
Derivation: a primitive root;
Where it is used
- Psalms 73:22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
- Psalms 74:5 like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
- Psalms 74:9 There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
- Psalms 76:1 For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A song. God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
- Psalms 77:14 You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples.
- Psalms 77:19 Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
- Psalms 78:3 that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Psalms 78:5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
- Psalms 78:6 that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children
- Psalms 79:6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
- Psalms 79:10 Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
- Psalms 81:5 He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
- Psalms 82:5 They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- Psalms 83:18 May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
- Psalms 87:4 “I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me—along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”
- Psalms 88:8 You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- Psalms 88:12 Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
- Psalms 88:18 You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
- Psalms 89:1 A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
- Psalms 89:15 Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O LORD, in the light of Your presence.
- Psalms 90:11 Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
- Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
- Psalms 91:14 “Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
- Psalms 92:6 A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
- Psalms 94:11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
- Psalms 95:10 For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
- Psalms 98:2 The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.
- Psalms 100:3 Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
- Psalms 101:4 A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.
- Psalms 103:7 He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.
- Psalms 103:14 For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
- Psalms 104:19 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
- Psalms 105:1 Give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
- Psalms 106:8 Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
- Psalms 109:27 Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, O LORD, have done it.
- Psalms 119:75 I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
- Psalms 119:79 May those who fear You turn to me, those who know Your testimonies.
- Psalms 119:125 I am Your servant; give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies.
- Psalms 119:152 Long ago I learned from Your testimonies that You have established them forever.
- Psalms 135:5 For I know that the LORD is great; our Lord is above all gods.
- Psalms 138:6 Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
- Psalms 139:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
- Psalms 139:2 You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
- Psalms 139:4 Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
- Psalms 139:14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
- Psalms 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
- Psalms 140:12 I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.
- Psalms 142:3 Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
- Psalms 143:8 Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
- Psalms 144:3 O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
- Psalms 145:12 to make known to men Your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.
- Psalms 147:20 He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
- Proverbs 1:2 for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,
- Proverbs 1:23 If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
- Proverbs 3:6 in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
- Proverbs 4:1 Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
- Proverbs 4:19 But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
- Proverbs 5:6 She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
- Proverbs 7:23 until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
- Proverbs 9:9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.