דַּעַת
daʻath · dah'-ath
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: cunning, (ig-) norantly, know(-ledge), (un-) awares (wittingly).
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
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › to see and know › the mark, the covenant sign
The doorway, the way in that works to see and know of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דַּעַת 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
92 occurrences · 92 OT · 0 NT · 45 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- knowledge28 · 35%
- of knowledge9 · 11%
- and knowledge8 · 10%
- without knowledge4 · 5%
- and in knowledge3 · 4%
- the knowledge3 · 4%
- by his knowledge3 · 4%
- and the knowledge2 · 3%
- with knowledge2 · 3%
- nor knowledge2 · 3%
- of the knowledge1 · 1%
- unawares1 · 1%
- ignorantly1 · 1%
- and unwittingly1 · 1%
- unwittingly1 · 1%
- and cunning1 · 1%
- thou knowest1 · 1%
- what ye know1 · 1%
- not the knowledge1 · 1%
- such knowledge1 · 1%
- cometh knowledge1 · 1%
- but through knowledge1 · 1%
- and findeth it not: but knowledge1 · 1%
- useth knowledge1 · 1%
- be without knowledge1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
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.