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γινώσκω

to know

‘to know’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓

G1097 Strong's Greek
ginṓskō Transliteration
/ghin-oce'-ko/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 222 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb γινωσκω centers on the idea of “to know.” One archaism survives in the King James Version — “knoweth” — where modern Bibles read “know”; see the renderings breakdown. The Greek New Testament uses it across 205 verses — common. First canonically at Matthew 1:25, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 4 senses. Dig into 205-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
allow
Modern gloss
to know
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1097 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

205
distinct verses
The word appears in 205 distinct verses.
20 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 20 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:25
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:25.
Revelation 3:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 3:9.
#72
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 72 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 205 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 109 · 53%
  • Acts 16 · 8%
  • Pauline Epistles 45 · 22%
  • General Epistles 31 · 15%
  • Revelation 4 · 2%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 205 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 109 verses · 53%
  • Johannine 75 verses · 37%
  • Pauline corpus 45 verses · 22%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 44 verses · 21%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 27 verses · 13%
  • Hebrews 4 verses · 2%
  • Revelation 4 verses · 2%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Know 33×, Knew 21×, Knoweth 14×
  • American Standard Version: Know 40×, Knew 16×, Knoweth 16×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Know 31×, Knows 10×, Understand 10×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Know 59×, You know 11×, Knew 9×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1097 across 244 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Know” 33×
  • “Knew” 21×
  • “Knoweth” 14×
  • “Known” 11×
  • “We know” 8×
  • “Ye know” 7×
  • “Have known” 6×
  • “I know” 6×
  • “Know ye” 5×
  • “Knowing” 5×
  • “Perceived” 5×
  • “Be known” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 58 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1097 across 242 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Know” 40×
  • “Knew” 16×
  • “Knoweth” 16×
  • “Ye know” 12×
  • “I know” 6×
  • “Knowing” 6×
  • “Perceiving” 6×
  • “Be known” 5×
  • “Known” 5×
  • “They perceived” 5×
  • “We” 5×
  • “We know” 5×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 63 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1097 across 220 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Know” 31×
  • “Knows” 10×
  • “Understand” 10×
  • “We know” 10×
  • “You know” 10×
  • “Will know” 7×
  • “I know” 6×
  • “Knew” 6×
  • “Realized” 4×
  • “You will know” 4×
  • “Does not know” 3×
  • “Is known” 3×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 76 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1097 across 277 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Know” 59×
  • “You know” 11×
  • “Knew” 9×
  • “Knows” 9×
  • “We know” 9×
  • “Did” 8×
  • “Having known” 8×
  • “Knowing” 8×
  • “Known” 8×
  • “Understand” 7×
  • “I know” 5×
  • “Will” 5×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 65 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 4 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel
  2. to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of
  3. Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman
  4. to become acquainted with, to know

Word origin

Origin: a prolonged form of a primary verb

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 12:29,1

A prolonged form of a primary verb; to know (absolutely) in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as shown at left with others not thus clearly expressed): - allow be aware (of) feel (have) known (-ledge) perceive be resolved can speak be sure understand.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 60 distinct written forms G1097 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
γινώσκετε ginṓskete Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 16:3 22
ἔγνωσαν égnōsan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 21:45 17
ἔγνω égnō Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 5:29 15
γνῶναι gnō̂nai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 13:11 14
γινώσκει ginṓskei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 24:50 12
γνοὺς gnoùs Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 12:15 11
γινώσκομεν ginṓskomen Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 Corinthians 13:9 10
γινώσκεις ginṓskeis Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 1:49 7
γινώσκω ginṓskō Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 1:34 7
γνῶτε gnō̂te Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural John 10:38 6
γινώσκοντες ginṓskontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Romans 6:6 6
γνώσεσθε gnṓsesthe Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Mark 4:13 6
ἐγνώκαμεν egnṓkamen Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural John 6:69 6
ἔγνων égnōn Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 7:23 6
γνόντες gnóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Mark 6:38 5
γνωσθήσεται gnōsthḗsetai Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 10:26 4
ἐγίνωσκεν egínōsken Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 1:25 4
ἐγνώκατε egnṓkate Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural John 8:55 4
γινωσκέτω ginōskétō Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 9:30 3
γνοῖ gnoî Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Mark 5:43 3
γνώσονται gnṓsontai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 13:35 3
γνῷ gnō̂ Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 7:51 3
ἔγνωκεν égnōken Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 2:8 3
ἔγνως égnōs Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 19:42 3
γινώσκεται ginṓsketai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 12:33 2
γινώσκων ginṓskōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine John 7:49 2
γνώσομαι gnṓsomai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 1:18 2
γνώσῃ gnṓsē Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 13:7 2
ἐγνώσθη egnṓsthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 24:35 2
ἔγνωκα égnōka Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular John 5:42 2
Γινώσκειν Ginṓskein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Philippians 1:12 1
γίνωσκε gínōske Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 2 Timothy 3:1 1
γινωσκομένη ginōskoménē Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 Corinthians 3:2 1
γινώσκειν ginṓskein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive John 2:24 1
γινώσκητε ginṓskēte Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural John 10:38 1
γινώσκουσί ginṓskousí Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 10:14 1
γινώσκουσιν ginṓskousin Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine Romans 7:1 1
γινώσκωσιν ginṓskōsin Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural John 17:3 1
γινώσκῃ ginṓskē Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 17:23 1
γνούς gnoús Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 12:48 1
γνωσθέντες gnōsthéntes Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Galatians 4:9 1
γνωσθήτω gnōsthḗtō Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular Philippians 4:5 1
γνωσθῇ gnōsthē̂ Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Luke 8:17 1
γνωσόμεθα gnōsómetha Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 John 3:19 1
γνόντα gnónta Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 2 Corinthians 5:21 1
γνώσεται gnṓsetai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 7:17 1
γνώτω gnṓtō Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 6:3 1
γνῶ gnō̂ Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular 2 Corinthians 2:9 1
γνῶθι gnō̂thi Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Hebrews 8:11 1
γνῶναί gnō̂naí Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Ephesians 3:19 1
γνῶσιν gnō̂sin Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Revelation 3:9 1
ἐγίνωσκον egínōskon Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 18:34 1
ἐγνωκέναι egnōkénai Verb, Perfect, Active, Infinitive 1 Corinthians 8:2 1
ἐγνωκότες egnōkótes Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 John 1:1 1
ἐγνώκατέ egnṓkaté Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural John 14:7 1
ἐγνώκειτε egnṓkeite Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 12:7 1
ἔγνωκάς égnōkás Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 14:9 1
ἔγνωκαν égnōkan Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 17:7 1
ἔγνωσται égnōstai Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 8:3 1
Ἔγνω Égnō Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 12:9 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1097, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word γινωσκω appears 579 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 541 verses in 33 books.

579
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
541
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
33 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 33 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1097) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 541. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1097) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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