'Know' in the Bible

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel."

He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, "See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant."

The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, "I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, 'When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.'"

Hazael said, "Why do you weep, my lord?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child."

Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" He said to them, "You know the man and what his talk was."

Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah."

Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, don't know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don't know the law of the god of the land."

Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone."

But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.

Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment.

What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.

David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, "Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them."

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.

"Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants,

whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house:

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)

then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."

Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you."

It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, "Have we made you one of the king's counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?" Then the prophet stopped, and said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel."

Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?

However in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: so you shall find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; for which cause was this city laid waste.

You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn't know them.

The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

Our adversaries said, "They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease."

"All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."

You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."

Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.

You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

"Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,

You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

"Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.

My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

"Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

"Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.

"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth."

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.