יָדַע yada

Hebrew word for “to know” · Strong’s H3045 · used 945 times in 873 verses

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Meaning

1) to know; 1a) (Qal);

How it is translated

Glosses given for yada in context, with how often each is used:

• know 249
• will know 147
• knew 103
• knows 44
• knowing 43
• may know 34
• have known 30
• known 21
• do you know 16
• make known to 16
• those who know 10
• had known 10

Where it is used

Also in 23 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 20 (10), 1 Kings 2 (7), Job 38 (7), 1 Samuel 20 (6), Ecclesiastes 8 (6), Exodus 33 (5), Leviticus 5 (5), Ruth 3 (5), 1 Samuel 22 (5), 1 Samuel 28 (5)

Forms

• ידע 108
• ידעתי 90
• וידעו 70
• ידעו 66
• ידעת 62
• יודע 40
• וידעתם 39
• לדעת 32
• תדע 29
• וידע 27

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yada more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֲנִי ani “I” 145
• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 97
• מָה mah “what?” 78
• זֶה zeh “this” 65
• רָאָה raah “to see” 65
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 60
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 62
• מַעַן maan “because” 39
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 46
• דֶּרֶךְ derekh “way” 47
• הֶם hem “them” 54
• בִּין bin “to understand” 34

Key verses

The verses using yada that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 18:19 — For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the…
• Deuteronomy 8:2 — And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in…
• 1 Kings 18:36 — And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of…
• 1 Chronicles 28:9 — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and…
• Psalms 9:16 — The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
• Ecclesiastes 11:9 — Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes:…
• Isaiah 44:9 — They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know;…
• Isaiah 49:23 — And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the…
• Isaiah 53:3 — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him…
• Isaiah 56:10 — His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Hosea 6:3 — Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and…
• Hosea 14:9 — Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.