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εἴδω

to see

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G1492 Strong's Greek
eídō Transliteration
/i'-do/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 317 appearances

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About this entry

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ειδω — transliterated eídō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to see.” Translators differ — “saw” in the King James Version, then “know” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 294 verses in 26 books, it is a common word in the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 6:8. Its lexical range runs to 8 senses. See the sense tree, 294-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
be aware
Modern gloss
to see
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 G1492 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 →

294
distinct verses
The word appears in 294 distinct verses.
26 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 26 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 6:8
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 6:8.
Revelation 19:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 19:12.
#57
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 57 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 294 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 139 · 47%
  • Acts 19 · 6%
  • Pauline Epistles 96 · 33%
  • General Epistles 28 · 10%
  • Revelation 12 · 4%

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 294 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 139 verses · 47%
  • Johannine 97 verses · 33%
  • Pauline corpus 96 verses · 33%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 43 verses · 15%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 25 verses · 9%
  • Revelation 12 verses · 4%
  • Hebrews 3 verses · 1%

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: Saw 79×, See 51×, I know 43×
  • American Standard Version: Saw 71×, See 57×, I saw 53×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Know 39×, You know 35×, We know 31×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Know 118×, Knowing 39×, I know 31×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1492 across 687 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Saw” 79×
  • “See” 51×
  • “I know” 43×
  • “I saw” 39×
  • “Know” 38×
  • “Knowing” 37×
  • “He saw” 35×
  • “Ye know” 34×
  • “We know” 29×
  • “Knoweth” 20×
  • “They saw” 20×
  • “Knew” 19×

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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1492 across 726 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Saw” 71×
  • “See” 57×
  • “I saw” 53×
  • “Know” 53×
  • “I know” 44×
  • “Knowing” 41×
  • “He saw” 34×
  • “We know” 27×
  • “Ye know” 27×
  • “They saw” 25×
  • “Behold” 23×
  • “Knoweth” 20×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 66 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 G1492 across 317 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Know” 39×
  • “You know” 35×
  • “We know” 31×
  • “I know” 30×
  • “I do not know” 16×
  • “Knows” 15×
  • “Knowing” 14×
  • “Do you not know” 13×
  • “You do not know” 11×
  • “Knew” 10×
  • “We do not know” 7×
  • “You may know” 5×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 51 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.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1492 across 425 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Know” 118×
  • “Knowing” 39×
  • “I know” 31×
  • “We know” 28×
  • “You know” 27×
  • “I do” 18×
  • “Do you” 15×
  • “Knows” 15×
  • “You do” 10×
  • “Do” 9×
  • “We do” 9×
  • “You” 9×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


8 senses in Thayer's, in lexicon order

The 8 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 perceive with the eyes
  2. to perceive by any of the senses
  3. to perceive, notice, discern, discover
  4. to see
  5. i.e. to ascertain what must be done about it
  6. to know of anything
  7. to know, i.e. get knowledge of, understand, perceive
  8. to have regard for one, cherish, pay attention to ( 1Th. 5:4 ).

Word origin

Origin: a root word

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 06:56,7

A primary verb; used only in certain past tenses the others being borrowed from the equivalent G3700 and G3708 ; properly to see (literally or figuratively); by implication (in the perfect only) to know : - be aware behold X can (+ not tell) consider (have) known (-ledge) look (on) perceive see be sure tell understand wist wot. Compare G3700 .

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


Forms in the corpus

The 35 distinct written forms G1492 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
οἴδατε oídate Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 7:11 63
οἶδα oîda Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 25:12 48
οἴδαμεν oídamen Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Matthew 21:27 42
εἰδότες eidótes Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 22:29 22
οἶδεν oîden Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 6:8 22
εἰδὼς eidṑs Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 12:25 19
οἶδας oîdas Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 15:12 16
ᾔδει ḗdei Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 24:43 14
εἰδέναι eidénai Verb, Perfect, Active, Infinitive Luke 20:7 10
ᾔδεισαν ḗdeisan Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 1:34 8
οἴδασιν oídasin Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 11:44 7
εἰδῆτε eidē̂te Verb, Perfect, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 9:6 6
οἶδά oîdá Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Luke 4:34 5
ᾔδειν ḗdein Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular John 1:31 5
ᾔδεις ḗdeis Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 25:26 3
ᾔδειτε ḗdeite Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 2:49 3
Οἴδαμεν Oídamen Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 2 Corinthians 5:1 2
εἰδυῖα eidyîa Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Mark 5:33 2
εἰδότας eidótas Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 2 Peter 1:12 2
εἰδῶ eidō̂ Verb, Perfect, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular 1 Corinthians 13:2 2
ἴστε íste Verb, Perfect, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Ephesians 5:5 2
Εἰδότες Eidótes Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 Corinthians 5:11 1
Οἶδά Oîdá Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Revelation 2:9 1
Οἶδας Oîdas Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 2 Timothy 1:15 1
εἰδήσουσίν eidḗsousín Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Hebrews 8:11 1
εἰδόσιν eidósin Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine 2 Thessalonians 1:8 1
εἰδότα eidóta Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Neuter 1 Thessalonians 4:5 1
εἰδότι eidóti Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine James 4:17 1
εἰδώς eidṓs Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 20:22 1
εἰδῇς eidē̂s Verb, Perfect, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular 1 Timothy 3:15 1
εἰδῶμεν eidō̂men Verb, Perfect, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural 1 Corinthians 2:12 1
εἴδῃ eídē Verb, Perfect, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural John 8:56 1
οἴδαμέν oídamén Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Mark 1:24 1
ἴσασι ísasi Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 26:4 1
Ἴστε Íste Verb, Perfect, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural James 1:19 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1492, 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 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ειδω appears 211 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 201 verses in 25 books.

211
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
201
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
25 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 25 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1492) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 201. 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 (G1492) 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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