gnōsis · knowledge

What it means

gnōsis (γνῶσις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “knowledge”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Truly grasping something, above all being close to God.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• knowledge ×28
• understanding ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×2
• Romans×3
• 1 Corinthians×10
• 2 Corinthians×6
• Ephesians×1
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×3

• Luke 1:77

  to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,

• Luke 11:52

  Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and those who were entering you hindered.”

• Romans 2:20

  an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and of truth—

• Romans 11:33

  O the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and unfathomable his ways!

• Romans 15:14

  And I myself am convinced, my brothers, about you, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

• 1 Corinthians 1:5

  because in everything you were enriched in him, in every word and all knowledge,

• 1 Corinthians 8:1

  Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

• 1 Corinthians 8:7

  But not in everyone is this knowledge; but some, through being accustomed until now to the idol, eat the food as sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

• 1 Corinthians 8:10

  For if anyone sees you, the one who has knowledge, reclining at table in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, since he is weak, be built up to eat food sacrificed to idols?

• 1 Corinthians 8:11

  For the one who is weak is destroyed by your knowledge, the brother for whom the Messiah died.

• 1 Corinthians 12:8

  For to one through the Spirit is given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

• 1 Corinthians 13:2

  And if I have prophecy and know all the mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 13:8

  Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they will be done away with; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away with.

• 1 Corinthians 14:6

  But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you either by revelation or by knowledge or by prophecy or by teaching?

• 2 Corinthians 2:14

  But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Messiah, and makes known through us the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place;

• 2 Corinthians 4:6

  For God, who said, “Out of darkness light will shine,” is the one who has shone in our hearts for the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of the Messiah.

• 2 Corinthians 6:6

  in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

• 2 Corinthians 8:7

  But just as you abound in everything, in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love from us in you, see that you abound in this grace also.

• 2 Corinthians 10:5

  and every high thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of the Messiah,

• 2 Corinthians 11:6

  And even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; on the contrary, in every way we have made this manifest to you in all things.

• Ephesians 3:19

  and to know the love of the Messiah that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.

• Philippians 3:8

  More than that, I also consider all things to be loss because of the surpassing value of the knowledge of the Messiah Jesus my Lord, because of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and I consider them garbage, so that I may gain the Messiah

• Colossians 2:3

  in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

• 1 Timothy 6:20

  O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from the profane empty chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge,

• 1 Peter 3:7

  Husbands, likewise, live with them with understanding, as with a weaker vessel, the woman, showing honor, as also fellow heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

• 2 Peter 1:5

  And for this very reason, making every effort, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,

• 2 Peter 1:6

  and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control perseverance, and to perseverance godliness,

• 2 Peter 3:18

  But grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Messiah. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

And 1 more times.