יָדַע yâdaʻ — to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing)
Translated in the KJV as acknowledge, acquaintance, advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, awares, can, certainly, comprehend, consider.
a primitive root; 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.).
yâdaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 342Imperfect (yiqtol) 125Sequential perfect (weqatal) 113Participle (active) 85Infinitive construct 48Imperative 35Wayyiqtol 33Cohortative 17Infinitive absolute 15Jussive 9Participle (passive) 3
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Hiph'il
Imperative 19Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Perfect (qatal) 12Infinitive construct 11Sequential perfect (weqatal) 6Participle (active) 4Cohortative 3Jussive 2Wayyiqtol 1
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 14Imperfect (yiqtol) 10Sequential perfect (weqatal) 7Jussive 4Participle (active) 3Wayyiqtol 2Infinitive construct 1
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 6
So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (passive) 2
Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:
Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
Hitpa'el
Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Po'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›