What is the Strong's number for Yada?

The Strong's number for Yada (יָדַע) is H3045. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Yada (Strong’s H3045): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Yada mean?

Yada (יָדַע, Strong's H3045) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.). The King James Bible translates it as acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, × could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-) norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, be learned, lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, × prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), × will be, wist, wit, wot.

Yada (יָדַע) is the Hebrew word numbered H3045 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.). In the King James Bible it is translated acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint.

יָדַע

yâdaʻ · Hebrew

Strong’s H3045 · yaw-dah'

Original wordיָדַע
Transliterationyâdaʻ
Pronunciationyaw-dah'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH3045
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, × could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-) norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, be learned, lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, × prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), × will be, wist, wit, wot. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Yada appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yada (H3045) stands behind 941 English renderings in 870 verses across 35 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (99), Psalms (93), Jeremiah (74).

How the King James Bible renders Yada, by count

know430 of 941 (46 percent)
known105 of 941 (11 percent)
knew83 of 941 (9 percent)
knowest65 of 941 (7 percent)
knoweth59 of 941 (6 percent)
knowledge19 of 941 (2 percent)

Three places to read Yada

Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
1 Kings 2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
Ecclesiastes 8:7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yada in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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