'Knew' in the Bible

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and with great enthusiasm he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.