דֵּעַ
dêaʻ · day'-ah
knowledge
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3045 (יָדַע);
knowledge
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: knowledge, opinion.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › to see and know
The doorway, the way in that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דֵּעַ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
5 occurrences · 5 OT · 0 NT · 4 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- mine opinion2 · 40%
- you mine opinion1 · 20%
- my knowledge1 · 20%
- in knowledge1 · 20%
Where it is used, by book.
- Job5
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.