HEBREW TRANSLITERATION: know

HEBREW TRANSLITERATIONS

5. know: Transliteration: Strong’s H 3045  דָּעָה, יָדַע [yada` /yaw·dah/] v. A primitive root; TWOT 848; GK 1977; and 3359; 947 occurrences; AV translates as “know” 645 times, “known” 105 times, “knowledge” 19 times, “perceive” 18 times, “shew” 17 times, “tell” eight times, “wist” seven times, “understand” seven times, “certainly” seven times, “acknowledge” six times, “acquaintance” six times, “consider” six times, “declare” six times, “teach” five times, and translated miscellaneously 85 times. 1 to know. 1A (Qal) 1a1 to know. 1a1a to know, learn to know. 1a1b to perceive. 1a1c to perceive and see, find out and discern. 1a1d to discriminate, distinguish. 1a1e to know by experience. 1a1f to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess. 1a1g to consider. 1a2 to know, be acquainted with. 1a3 to know (a person carnally). 1a4 to know how, be skilful in. 1a5 to have knowledge, be wise. 1B (Niphal) 1b1 to be made known, be or become known, be revealed. 1b2 to make oneself known. 1b3 to be perceived. 1b4 to be instructed. 1C (Piel) to cause to know. 1D (Poad) to cause to know. 1E (Pual). 1e1 to be known. 1e2 known, one known, acquaintance (participle). 1F (Hiphil) to make known, declare. 1G (Hophal) to be made known. 1H (Hithpael) to make oneself known, reveal oneself.

The word translated “know” is Strong’s H3045 yada` /yaw·dah, which in the context, here in Genesis 19:4-11 refers to sexual immorality, that of “sodomy” or “homosexuality.” The 1A3 transliteration in Strong’s means to know a person carnally or sexually. The men of Sodom were actually breaking down the door to try and get to the angels; and even after they had been smote with blindness, they wore themselves out trying to find the door, with their wicked and pervasive sexual ways. Both Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 states that for a man to sleep sexually with another man, it is an abomination. It offended and extremely disgusted Yahweh. This sinful lifestyle is also condemned in Romans 1:18-32, 1 Corinthians 6:9, and 1Timothy 1:10. Yahweh showed His wrath against it by destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. According to Romans 1:27b, so-called gays pay a high price for their immoral lifestyle.