דֵּעָה
knowledge
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 4 times (67%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 2 times (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1844 appears — 6 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 11:9 דֵּעָה֙ n c fs They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
- Isaiah 28:9 דֵעָ֔ה n c fs Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
Jeremiah 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 Hebrew noun דעה (dêʻâh). First canonically at 1 Samuel 2:3, it enters the text early. It turns up in 6 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1844 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 33%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Knowledge 5×
- American Standard Version†: Knowledge 4×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Knowledge 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Knowledge 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1844 across 6† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1844 across 6† 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 H1844 across 5† 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1844 across 6† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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 (of God)
Word origin
n.f. knowledge (strictly Inf. of ידע)—דֵּעָה ψ 73:11 + 3 times; pl. דֵּעוֹת 1 S 2:3; Jb 36:4;—תְּמִים ד׳ Jb 36:4 (of Elihu); of God’s knowledge, אֵל ד׳ י׳ 1 S 2:3 a God of knowledge is י׳ (on pl. v. Dr); יֵשׁ דֵּעָה בְעֶלְיוֹן ψ 73:11 (‖ אֵיכָה יָדַע־אֵל); knowledge, with י׳ as obj. Is 11:9 (where verbal force of noun appears); as taught by proph. Is 28:9; וְרָעוּ אֶתְכֶם דֵּעָה וְהַשְׂכֵּיל Je 3:15 of י׳’s shepherds (i.e. future ideal rulers). Gr proposes (plausibly) רָעֹה, after 𝔊, v. also Gie.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דע (dêaʻ) (H1843) — knowledge.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דֵּעָה
- knowledge, understanding, reason; view; taste. Snh. 92ᵃ אדם שיש בו ד׳ a man that has obtained knowledge. Lev. R. s. 1 (prov.) ד׳ קנית וכ׳ if thou hast acquired knowledge, what doest thou lack? &c.—Cant. R. to IV, 3 ד׳ סרוחה של וכ׳ the corrupt mind of, i.e. the fool, Ahasver; a. v. fr.—Pl. דֵּעוֹת, דֵּיעוֹת (used also in Chald. phrases). Shebu. 42ᵃ אזלינן בתר רוב ד׳ we are guided by the majority of opinions; Yoma 83ᵃ; Tem. 27ᵇ בתר ד׳ אזלינן. Shebu. l. c. כיון דנחית לד׳ since he cared to mention a certain number of minds (as witnesses). Y. Sot. I, 17ᵃ; Tosef. ib. V, 9; a. e. כשם שיש ד׳ וכ׳ as men differ in tastes (sensibilities) as regards food and drink, so do husbands differ &c. Pes. 112ᵃ ארבע ד׳ וכ׳ there are four thoughts &c. (the husband thinking of his first wife and the wife of her first husband); a. fr. V. דַּעַת.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H1844 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דֵעָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 28:9 | 1 |
| דֵּע֣וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Job 36:4 | 1 |
| דֵּעָ֣ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 73:11 | 1 |
| דֵּעָ֥ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 3:15 | 1 |
| דֵּעָה֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 11:9 | 1 |
| דֵּעוֹת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 2:3 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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