SPECIAL TOPIC: KNOW (using mostly Deuteronomy as a paradigm)

SPECIAL TOPIC: KNOW

The Hebrew word "know" (yada, BDB 393, KB 390) has several connotations.
1. to understand good and evil ‒ Gen. 3:22; Deut. 1:39; Isa. 7:14-15; Jonah 4:11
2. to know by understanding ‒ Exod. 3:7; Num. 24:15; Deut. 9:2,3,6; 18:21
3. to know by experience ‒ Deut. 3:19; 4:35; 8:2,3,5; 11:2; 20:20; 31:13; Josh. 23:14; Jer. 5:4,5
4. to consider ‒ Deut. 4:39; 11:2; 29:16
5. to know personally
  1. a person ‒ Gen. 29:5; Exod. 1:8; Deut. 22:2; 33:9
  2. a god ‒ Deut. 11:28; 13:2,6,13; 28:64; 29:26; 32:17
  3. YHWH ‒ Deut. 4:35,39; 7:9; 29:6; 1 Chr. 28:9; Isa. 1:3; 56:10-11; Jer. 9:3; Hosea 4:1
  4. sexually ‒ Gen. 4:1,17,25; 24:16; 19:8; 38:26; Num. 31:17,19,35; 1 Sam. 1:19; 1 Kgs. 1:4; Prov. 3:6; Hosea 2:20; Luke 1:34 (negated, used of Mary's virginity)
6. a learned skill or knowledge ‒ Gen. 25:27; Isa. 29:11,12; Amos 5:16
7. be wise ‒ Deut. 29:4; Prov. 1:2; 4:1; 17:27; 30:3; Isa. 29:24
8. God's knowledge
  1. of Moses ‒ Deut. 34:10
  2. of Israel ‒ Deut. 31:21
9. knowledge of God better than sacrifice ‒ Hosea 6:6
This word is also used in the sense of God testing, so as to know (not in the sense of "Open Theism," but as biblical imagery of humans having the opportunity to exercise faith)
1. God tests Israel ‒ Deut. 8:2; 13:3; Jdgs. 3:4
2. Abraham ‒ Gen. 22:1,12
3. Hezekiah ‒2 Chr. 32:31
4. Jeremiah ‒Jer. 12:3
5. a psalmist ‒ Ps. 139:23
Knowledge is a wonderful and dangerous thing (i.e. Genesis 3). God seeks to give knowledge, humans seek to take it! With knowledge comes responsibility (see my fuller not at John 14:6).

SPECIAL TOPIC: GOD TESTS HIS PEOPLE

SPECIAL TOPIC: AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

SPECIAL TOPIC: Seek the Lord (OT)