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γνῶσις

gnōsis · G1108 · Greek · 29 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. acquaintance

    Possessing information about

    Examples

    Luke 1:77 To give His people the knowledge of salvation By the forgiveness of their sins,

    Philippians 3:8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ,

    2 Peter 3:18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

  2. knowledge, what is known

    The content of what is known

    Examples

    Romans 2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, possessing in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth—

    Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

    Romans 15:14 And concerning you, my brothers and sisters, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.

  3. esoteric knowledge

    Esoteric knowledge (primarily philosophical and religious), with the implication of its being heretical and contrary to the gospel

    Examples

    1 Timothy 6:20 Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”—

  4. understanding, comprehending

    Coming to an understanding as the result of ability to experience and learn

    Examples

    Luke 1:77 To give His people the knowledge of salvation By the forgiveness of their sins,

    Luke 11:52 “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.”

    1 Corinthians 1:5 that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge,

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

7 occurrences in 7 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 3 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

9 occurrences in 9 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 2 words
דַּעַת daʻath · H1847 · knowing, knowledge, skill
Hebrew דַּעַת (daʻath, H1847) and Greek γνῶσις (gnōsis, G1108) both denote knowledge as a state or possession of understanding; γνῶσις emphasizes the act or process of knowing alongside the resulting knowledge state, while דַּעַת encompasses knowledge broadly including awareness, discernment, and both wise knowledge and its absence (ignorance), making them direct cross-linguistic translation equivalents.
יָדַע yâdaʻ · H3045 · to learn, to find out, to know
יָדַע (yâdaʻ, H3045) is the Hebrew verbal root denoting the act of knowing, perceiving, or having knowledge, serving as the direct lexical equivalent to the Greek noun γνῶσις (gnōsis, G1108) which denotes the state or content of knowledge derived from that act; this is a standard verb-to-abstract-noun cross-linguistic pairing where the Hebrew verbal lemma encompasses the semantic range that Greek expresses through the derived nominal form.
Semantic domains 4 entries
To know, to know about, to have knowledge of, to be acquainted with, acquaintance28.1
Used broadly of possessing knowledge, drawn from the same broad range of meaning as the entries around it.
Knowledge, what is known28.17
Used of knowledge as a possessed body of information, as of giving God's people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of sins in Luke 1:77 and the embodiment of knowledge and truth found in the Law in Romans 2:20.
Esoteric knowledge28.19
Used of specialized, guarded knowledge, as of the lawyers who have taken away the key of knowledge in Luke 11:52.
To come to understand, to perceive, to comprehend32.16
Used of grasping the depth of something otherwise unsearchable, as of the depth of the riches and knowledge of God declared unsearchable in Romans 11:33.
Word family 25 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

γινώσκω ginṓskō · G1097 · to know, to know about, to have knowledge of · 221×ὄνομα ónoma · G3686 · name, person, people · 229×ἐπιγινώσκω epiginṓskō · G1921 · to know about, to know definitely about, knowledge about · 44×ἀναγινώσκω anaginṓskō · G314 · to read, reading · 32×γνῶσιςgnōsis · G1108γνωρίζω gnōrízō · G1107 · to know, to know about, to have knowledge of · 26×ἐπίγνωσις epígnōsis · G1922 · knowing about, knowing definitely about, knowledge about · 20×γνωστός gnōstós · G1110 · what is known, information, acquaintance · 15×γνώμη gnṓmē · G1106 · purpose, intention, what is considered · 9×εὐώνυμος euṓnymos · G2176 · left, left side · 9×ὀνομάζω onomázō · G3687 · to call, to give a name to, to give a title to · 9×προγινώσκω proginṓskō · G4267 · to know beforehand, to know already, to have foreknowledge · 5×ἀνάγνωσις anágnōsis · G320 · to read, reading · 3×καταγινώσκω kataginṓskō · G2607 · to condemn · 3×ἀγνωσία agnōsía · G56 · to lack knowledge, to have no knowledge, ignorance · 2×διαγινώσκω diaginṓskō · G1231 · to learn about accurately, to get detailed information, to examine thoroughly · 2×πρόγνωσις prógnōsis · G4268 · to know beforehand, to know already, to have foreknowledge · 2×ἄγνωστος ágnōstos · G57 · not known, unknown · 1×ἀκατάγνωστος akatágnōstos · G176 · above criticism, beyond reproach · 1×γνώστης gnṓstēs · G1109 · one who knows, expert · 1×διάγνωσις diágnōsis · G1233 · to decide a case, to arrive at a verdict after examination · 1×ἐπονομάζω eponomázō · G2028 · to call oneself, to regard oneself · 1×συγγνώμη syngnṓmē · G4774 · permission, concession, to be allowed to · 1×τοὔνομα toúnoma · G5122 · the name · 1×ἀναγνωρίζομαι anagnōrízomai · G319 · to make recognized, to make known again · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γνώσεως, ἡ (γινώσκω) (from Thucydides down), knowledge: with the genitive of the object,…
γνώσεως, ἡ (γινώσκω) (from Thucydides down), knowledge: with the genitive of the object, σωτηρίας, Lk 1:77; τοῦ Θεοῦ, the knowledge of God, such as is offered in the gospel, 2 Cor 2:14, especially in Paul's exposition of it, 2 Cor 10:5; τῆς δόξης τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν προσώπῳ Χριστοῦ, 2 Cor 4:6; Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, of Christ as a saviour, Phm 3:8; 2 Pet 3:18; with subjunctive genitive τοῦ Θεοῦ, the knowledge of things which belongs to God, Rom 11:33. γνῶσις, by itself, signifies in general intelligence, understanding: Eph 3:19; the general knowledge of the Christian religion, Rom 15:14; 1 Cor 1:5; the deeper, more perfect and enlarged knowledge of this religion, such as belongs to the more advanced, 1 Cor 12:8; 1 Cor 13:2, 1 Cor 13:8; 1 Cor 14:6; 2 Cor 6:6; 2 Cor 8:7; 2 Cor 11:6; especially of things lawful and unlawful for Christians, 1 Cor 8:1, 1 Cor 8:7, 1 Cor 8:10f; the higher knowledge of Christian and divine things which false teachers boast of, ψευδωνομος γνῶσις, 1 Tim 6:20 (cf. Holtzmann, Pastoralbriefe, p. 132f); moral wisdom, such as is seen in right living, 2 Pet 1:5; and in contact with others: κατά γνῶσιν, wisely, 1 Pet 3:7. objective knowledge: what is known concerning divine things and human duties, Rom 2:20; Col 2:3; concerning salvation through Christ, Lk 11:52. Where γνῶσις and σοφία are used together the former seems to be knowledge regarded by itself, the latter wisdom as exhibited in action: Rom 11:33; 1 Cor 12:8; Col 2:3. ("γνῶσις is simply intuitive, σοφία is ratiocinative also; γνῶσις applies chiefly to the apprehension of truths, σοφία superadds the power of reasoning about them and tracing their relations." Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited. To much the same effect Fritzsche (on Romans, the passage cited), "γνῶσιςperspicientia veri, σοφίαsapientia aut mentis sollertia, quae cognita intellectaque veritate utatur, ut res efficiendas efficiat. Meyer (on 1 Corinthians, the passage cited) nearly reverses Lightfoot's distinction; elsewhere, however (e. g. on Colossians, the passage cited, cf. 9), he and others regard σοφία merely as the more general, γνῶσις as the more restricted and special term. Cf. Lightfoot as above; Trench, § lxxv.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Know3 occurrencesKnown [the content of knowledge]24 occurrencesCome To Understand5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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