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“knowing God” (
) simply suggests that they could not avoid the perception.
Sometimes
implies a special participation in the object “known,” and gives
greater weight to what is stated; thus in John 8:32, “ye shall know the truth,”
is
used, whereas in 1 Tim. 4:3, “them that believe and know the truth,”
lays
stress on participation in the truth. Cf. the stronger statement in Col. 1:6 (
)
with that in 2 Cor. 8:9 (
), and the two verbs in 1 Cor. 13:12, “now I know in part
(
); but then shall I know (
) even as also I have been known
(
),” “a knowledge” which perfectly unites the subject with the object; (b) “to
discover, ascertain, determine,” e.g., Luke 7:37; 23:7; Acts 9:30; 19:34; 22:29; 28:1; in
24:11 the best mss. have this verb instead of No. 1; hence the
RV
, “take knowledge.” J.
Armitage Robinson (on Ephesians) points out that
is “knowledge directed
towards a particular object, perceiving, discerning,” whereas
is knowledge in the
abstract. See
ACKNOWLEDGE
.
4.
(
$
0
, 4267), “to know beforehand,” is used (a) of the divine
“foreknowledge” concerning believers, Rom. 8:29; Israel, 11:2; Christ as the Lamb of
God, 1 Pet. 1:20,
RV
, “foreknown” (
KJV
, “foreordained”); (b) of human previous
“knowledge,” of a person, Acts 26:5,
RV
, “having knowledge of” (
KJV
, “which knew”); of
facts, 2 Pet. 3:17. See
FOREKNOW
.¶
5.
(
# &
, 1987), “to know, know of, understand” (probably an old
middle voice form of
, “to set over”), is used in Mark 14:68, “understand,”
which follows
“I (neither) know”; most frequently in the Acts, 10:28; 15:7; 18:25;
19:15, 25; 20:18; 22:19; 24:10; 26:26; elsewhere, 1 Tim. 6:4; Heb. 11:8; Jas. 4:14; Jude
10. See
UNDERSTAND
.¶
6.
$
(
&
, 4923),
$
, “with,” and No. 2, a perfect tense with a present
meaning, denotes (a) “to share the knowledge of, be privy to,” Acts 5:2; (b) “to be
conscious of,” especially of guilty consciousness, 1 Cor. 4:4, “I know nothing against
(
KJV
, by) myself.” The verb is connected with
$
, found in Acts 12:12; 14:6 (in the
best texts). See
CONSIDER
,
PRIVY
,
WARE
.¶
7.
(
!
, 50), “not to know, to be ignorant”: see
IGNORANT
.
8.
(
$&
, 1107) signifies (a) “to come to know, discover, know,” Phil.
1:22, “I wot (not),” i.e., “I know not,” “I have not come to know” (the
RV
, marg. renders
it, as under (b), “I do not make known”); (b) “to make known,” whether (I)
communicating things before “unknown,” Luke 2:15, 17; in the latter some mss. have the
verb
(hence the
KJV
, “made known abroad)”; John 15:15, “I have made
known”; 17:26; Acts 2:28; 7:13 (1st part), see
Note
(3) below; Rom. 9:22, 23; 16:26
(passive voice); 2 Cor. 8:1, “we make known (to you),”
RV
,
KJV
, “we do (you) to wit”;
Eph. 1:9; 3:3, 5, 10 (all three in the passive voice); 6:19, 21; Col. 1:27; 4:7, 9, “shall
make known” (
KJV
, “shall declare”); 2 Pet. 1:16; or (II), reasserting things already