2001 Translation

EIDENAI, eidenai

Sounds Like: EYE-deh-nye

Translations: to know, to understand, to perceive

From the root: ΟἾΔΑ

Part of Speech: Verb

Explanation: This is the perfect active infinitive form of the verb ΟἾΔΑ, meaning 'to know' or 'to understand'. It is used to express the act of knowing or having knowledge about something. For example, it can be used in constructions like 'I want to know' or 'it is good to know'.

Inflection: Perfect Active, Infinitive

Strong’s number: G1492 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 25:2, 103:10

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:124

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans — 9:1

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 1:4, 42:296
• Book Two — 42:296

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 20:325
• Book 2 — 6:121, 12:274
• Book 3 — 2:46
• Book 4 — 1:4, 8:261
• Book 5 — 1:12, 8:281
• Book 6 — 12:256
• Book 7 — 1:27
• Book 9 — 9:196
• Book 10 — 1:7
• Book 11 — 6:283
• Book 13 — 10:300
• Book 14 — 9:182, 10:233, 10:246
• Book 15 — 6:171, 6:193, 7:225, 7:265
• Book 16 — 4:132, 6:173, 8:248
• Book 17 — 5:127
• Book 20 — 1:10, 4:89

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:2, 0:8
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 2:5, 3:6, 7:2, 71:2, 77:1, 92:5

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 50:261

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 12:6

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 7:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 2:9
• Exodus — 10:7
• Deuteronomy — 13:3, 29:4
• 2 Chronicles — 32:31
• Job — 21:14, 36:12
• Wisdom — 7:17, 8:21, 12:27, 13:1, 13:9, 15:3, 16:16
• Isaiah — 5:13
• Jeremiah — 9:6, 24:7
• Enoch — 25:2

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 20:7, 22:34
• 1 Corinthians — 2:2, 11:3
• Ephesians — 1:18
• Colossians — 2:1, 4:6
• 1 Thessalonians — 4:4, 5:12
• Titus — 1:16

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟἾΔΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΕἸΔΕΙΗ — might know, would know, should know, might perceive, would perceive, should perceive
• ΕἸΔΕΙΗΣΑΝ — they might know, they would know, they might perceive, they would perceive
• ΕἸΔΟΙΣ — you know, you have known, you understand, you perceive
• ΕἸΔΟΣΙ — knowing, understanding, perceiving, seeing, those who know, to those who know
• ΕἸΔΥΙΑΙ — knowing, having known
• ΕἸΔΩΣ — knowing, one who knows, he who knows
• ἨΔΕΙΣ — you knew, you had known

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