daat · knowledge

What it means

daat (דַּעַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “knowledge”.

Knowing something, and also knowing it by experience.

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. What one has learned; or a close bond with God.
2. Doing something unintentionally, without realizing the harm.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Knowledge: knowing something, and also knowing it by experience or by dealing with it. It comes from יָדַע, “know” (H3045).

• “The tree of the knowledge of good and evil” Genesis 2:9
• “The fear of YHWH is the beginning of knowledge” Proverbs 1:7
• Knowing God, and its lack: “for lack of knowledge” Hosea 4:6Jeremiah 22:16
• The spirit of knowledge Isaiah 11:2Exodus 31:3
• “Unknowingly”: without intent Deuteronomy 4:42

How we translate it

“Knowledge” 83 times. This edition sets chokma / bina / daat = “wisdom / understanding / knowledge”, so that each Hebrew word has its own (Isaiah 11:2). With a negation, בִּבְלִי דַעַת is “unknowingly” (3 times; Deuteronomy 4:42), in the law of the one who kills without intent.

How it is translated

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

• knowledge ×83
• know ×5
• unknowingly ×3
• Because I knew ×1
• without knowing it ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×11
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×40
• Ecclesiastes×7
• Isaiah×10
• Jeremiah×3
• Daniel×2
• Hosea×4
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 2:9

  And YHWH Elohim made every tree sprout from the ground that is pleasing to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

• Genesis 2:17

  but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat from it, for in the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”

• Exodus 31:3

  and I have filled him with the spirit of Elohim, with wisdom, and with understanding, and with knowledge, and with all kinds of work,

• Exodus 35:31

  and he has filled him with the spirit of Elohim, with wisdom, with understanding, and with knowledge, and with all kinds of work,

• Numbers 24:16

  the oracle of him who hears the words of El, and knows the knowledge of Elyon, who sees the vision of Shaddai, fallen down and with eyes uncovered:

• Deuteronomy 4:42

  for the manslayer to flee there, who kills his neighbor unknowingly, and he did not hate him previously, so that by fleeing to one of these cities he may live:

• Deuteronomy 19:4

  And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there and lives: whoever strikes his neighbor without knowing it, and he did not hate him previously,

• Joshua 20:3

  so that the manslayer who mortally strikes a person inadvertently, unknowingly, may flee there; and they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

• Joshua 20:5

  And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not hand over the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him beforehand.

• Judges 3:2

  only so that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, only those who before had not known them:

• 1 Kings 7:14

  He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and knowledge to do every work in bronze. And he came to King Solomon and did all his work.

• Job 10:7

  although you know that I am not wicked, and there is none to deliver from your hand?

• Job 13:2

  What you know, I too know; I am not inferior to you.

• Job 15:2

  “Will a wise man answer with knowledge of wind, and fill his belly with the east wind?

• Job 21:14

  And they say to El, ‘Turn away from us; the knowledge of your ways we do not desire.

• Job 21:22

  Will anyone teach knowledge to El, since he judges those on high?

• Job 33:3

  My sayings are the uprightness of my heart, and the knowledge of my lips they speak with purity.

• Job 34:35

  ‘Job does not speak with knowledge, and his words are not with prudence.’

• Job 35:16

  So Job opens his mouth in vain; without knowledge he multiplies words.”

• Job 36:12

  But if they do not hear, by the dart they will pass, and they will expire without knowledge.

• Job 38:2

  “Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

• Job 42:3

  ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I declared what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

• Psalms 19:2

  Day to day pours out the saying, and night to night declares knowledge.

• Psalms 94:10

  He who corrects nations, does he not reprove? he who teaches human beings knowledge!

• Psalms 119:66

  Good discernment and knowledge teach me, for in your commandments I have believed.

• Psalms 139:6

  Too wonderful is knowledge for me; it is high; I cannot reach it.

• Proverbs 1:4

  to give to the simple shrewdness, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

• Proverbs 1:7

  The fear of YHWH is the beginning of knowledge; wisdom and correction fools despise.

• Proverbs 1:22

  “How long, simple ones, will you love simpleness, and scoffers delight in scoffing for themselves, and the senseless hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 1:29

  because they hated knowledge, and the fear of YHWH they did not choose;

• Proverbs 2:5

  then you will understand the fear of YHWH, and the knowledge of Elohim you will find.

• Proverbs 2:6

  For YHWH gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and insight.

• Proverbs 2:10

  For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

• Proverbs 3:20

  By his knowledge the deeps were split open, and the clouds drip dew.

• Proverbs 5:2

  to keep discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

• Proverbs 8:9

  All of them are plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.

• Proverbs 8:10

  Receive my correction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

• Proverbs 8:12

  I, wisdom, dwell with shrewdness, and the knowledge of discretion I find.

• Proverbs 9:10

  The start of wisdom is the fear of YHWH, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

• Proverbs 10:14

  The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool is ruin close at hand.

And 53 more times.