γνῶσις
knowledge
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
6 distinct verses where G1108 appears in the Accusative case, across 4 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 8:1 γνῶσιν γνῶσις n acc sg fem n nom sg fem Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
- 1 Corinthians 8:10 γνῶσιν n acc sg fem For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
- 1 Corinthians 13:2 γνῶσιν n acc sg fem If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.
1 Peter 1 verse
2 Peter 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“knowledge” is the headline sense of the Greek noun γνωσις (gnōsis). Its earliest occurrence is Luke 1:77. The Greek New Testament uses it across 28 verses — moderately common. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in 1 Corinthians. Related forms include γινωσκω, γνωμη and γνωριζω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1108 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 →
- 28
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 28 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #471
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 471 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 28 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 9 verses 32%
- 2 Corinthians 6 verses 21%
- Romans 3 verses 11%
By section of the New Testament
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 28 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 22 verses · 79%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 14%
- Gospels 2 verses · 7%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 7%
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: Knowledge 27×
- American Standard Version: Knowledge 27×
- Berean Standard Bible: Knowledge 26×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Knowledge 29×, Of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1108 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1108 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G1108 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1108 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- knowledge signifies in general intelligence, understanding
Word origin
Derived from γινωσκω (ginṓskō) (G1097) — to know.
From G1097 ; knowing (the act) that is (by implication) knowledge : - knowledge science.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G1108 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| γνώσεως gnṓseōs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 11:52 | 12 |
| γνώσει gnṓsei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 1:5 | 8 |
| γνῶσιν gnō̂sin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 1:77 | 6 |
| γνῶσις gnō̂sis | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 8:1 | 3 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1108, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- γνωμη gnṓmē G1106 mind
- γνωριζω gnōrízō G1107 to make known
- γνωστης gnṓstēs G1109 expert
- γνωστος gnōstós G1110 known
- νους noûs G3563 mind
- ονομα ónoma G3686 name
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 γνωσις appears 40 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 39 verses in 10 books.
- 40
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 39
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Samuel 2:3 γνῶσις
- 1 Chronicles 4:10 γνῶσις
- Psalms 18:3 γνῶσις
- Proverbs 2:6 γνῶσις
- Ecclesiastes 1:16 γνῶσις
- Isaiah 11:2 γνῶσις
- Jeremiah 10:14 γνῶσις
- Daniel 2:30 γνῶσις
- Hosea 4:6 γνῶσις
- Malachi 2:7 γνῶσις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1108) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 2:3 γνῶσις Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth; For Yahweh is a God of knowledge, By him actions are weighed.
- 1 Chronicles 4:10 γνῶσις Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested.
- Psalms 18:3 γνῶσις I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; And I am saved from my enemies.
- Psalms 72:11 γνῶσις Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.
- Psalms 93:10 γνῶσις
- Psalms 118:66 γνῶσις
- Psalms 138:6 γνῶσις For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; But the proud, he knows from afar.
- Proverbs 2:6 γνῶσις For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
- Proverbs 8:9 γνῶσις They are all plain to him who understands, Right to those who find knowledge.
- Proverbs 8:10 γνῶσις Receive my instruction rather than silver; Knowledge rather than choice gold.
- Proverbs 8:12 γνῶσις "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.
- Proverbs 9:6 γνῶσις Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."
- Proverbs 13:16 γνῶσις Every prudent man acts from knowledge, But a fool exposes folly.
- Proverbs 13:19 γνῶσις Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, But fools detest turning from evil.
- Proverbs 16:4 γνῶσις Yahweh has made everything for its own end-- Yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
- Proverbs 19:23 γνῶσις The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; He rests and will not be touched by trouble.
- Proverbs 21:11 γνῶσις When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom; When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
- Proverbs 22:20 γνῶσις Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things Of counsel and knowledge,
- Proverbs 22:21 γνῶσις To teach you truth, reliable words, To give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
- Proverbs 27:21 γνῶσις The crucible is for silver, And the furnace for gold; But man is refined by his praise.
- Proverbs 29:7 γνῶσις The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.
- Proverbs 30:3 γνῶσις I have not learned wisdom, Neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
- Ecclesiastes 1:16 γνῶσις I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
- Ecclesiastes 1:17 γνῶσις I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 1:18 γνῶσις For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
- Ecclesiastes 2:21 γνῶσις For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26 γνῶσις For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 γνῶσις For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
- Ecclesiastes 8:6 γνῶσις For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10 γνῶσις Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
- Ecclesiastes 12:9 γνῶσις Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
- Isaiah 11:2 γνῶσις The Spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 10:14 γνῶσις Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 28:17 γνῶσις So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
- Jeremiah 47:14 γνῶσις
- Daniel 2:30 γνῶσις But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
- Hosea 4:6 γνῶσις My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, That you may be no priest to me. Because you have your God's law, I will also forget your children.
- Hosea 10:12 γνῶσις Sow to yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; For it is time to seek Yahweh, Until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
- Malachi 2:7 γνῶσις For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Hosts.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1108) 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.
