Definition

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.)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• 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

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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