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# דֵּעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1844

**knowledge** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

knowledge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1844/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֵּעָה: n.f. knowledge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1844/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: knowledge (4); of knowledge(s) (2).

## In the verses

[Job 36:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.4/#tree)

כִּֽי־אָ֭מְנָם לֹא־שֶׁ֣קֶר מִלָּ֑י תְּמִ֖ים דֵּע֣וֹת עִמָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) truly not \[are\].falsehood words my \[one\].complete of.knowledge(s) \[is\].with you

*JPS 1917:* For truly my words are not false; one that is upright in mind is with thee.

[Psalms 73:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.11/#tree)

וְֽאָמְר֗וּ אֵיכָ֥ה יָדַֽע־אֵ֑ל וְיֵ֖שׁ דֵּעָ֣ה בְעֶלְיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and they.say how? does.he.know God and.\[is\] there? knowledge with the.Most.High

*JPS 1917:* And they say: 'How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1844.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1844/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).