Words the Bible translates as acknowledge
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ginōskōγινώσκωto come to know: to learn, perceive, or grasp something so that it becomes part of what you know
- yadaיָדַעto know: to have or come to have a firm hold on something, whether a fact, a skill, or a person.
- epiginōskōἐπιγινώσκωto know fully or to acknowledge; to recognize a truth, a person, or God and take a stand on it
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- to recognize or make out who or what someone is, or to find out the facts of a matter
- nakharנָכַרto recognize: to look at someone or something and correctly identify what it is
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- to treat as foreign: to make a person or thing strange, whether by disguising, disowning, or failing to know it
- homologeōὁμολογέωto acknowledge or admit: to grant that something is true, whether a fact one concedes or a wrong one owns up to
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- to confess or profess: to declare openly and on the record where one stands, owning allegiance to a person or affirming a truth as one's own before others
- to promise: to bind oneself by a stated pledge to do something
- to praise: to give God thanks out loud, openly acknowledging his name in worship
- apodechomaiἀποδέχομαιto welcome wholeheartedly: to receive a person or a message gladly and with approval
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