Word study

Note

9 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: note, noted, notes. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “note” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • יָדַע yâdaknowtranslated this way 4 times of its 914 uses · Strong’s H3045Verb  ·  Translated: know 453, known 53, knows 48, knew 38

    Ruth 3:4 When he lies down, note the place where he lies. Then go in and uncover his feet, and lie down, and he will explain to you what you should do.”

    1 Kings 20:7 Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please take note and see that this man is looking for trouble, for when he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, I did not deny him.”

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  • הִנֵּה hinnêhlo! behold!translated this way 4 times of its 689 uses · Strong’s H2009Interjection  ·  Translated: Behold 175, Look 83, saw 47, indeed 36

    2 Kings 2:19 Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the city’s location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”

    2 Chronicles 19:11 Note that Amariah, the chief priest, will be over you in all that pertains to the LORD, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all that pertains to the king. And the Levites will serve as officers before you. Act resolutely; may the LORD be with the upright!”

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  • בִּין bîndiscerntranslated this way 2 times of its 166 uses · Strong’s H995Verb  ·  Translated: understand 27, discerning 16, understanding 12, consider 10

    Job 11:11 Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?

    Jeremiah 9:17 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

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  • נָכַר nâkarregard, recognizetranslated this way 1 time of its 48 uses · Strong’s H5234Verb  ·  Translated: recognized 7, recognize 4, acknowledge 4, show partiality 3

    2 Samuel 3:36 All the people took note and were pleased. In fact, everything the king did pleased them.

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  • שָׁמַר shâmarkeep, watch, preservetranslated this way 1 time of its 461 uses · Strong’s H8104Verb  ·  Translated: keep 133, careful 39, kept 33, guard 25

    Job 10:14 If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

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  • שׁוּר shûrbehold, regardtranslated this way 1 time of its 15 uses · Strong’s H7789Verb  ·  Translated: see 4, watch 3, behold 2

    Job 35:13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

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  • רָאָה rââhseetranslated this way 1 time of its 1,266 uses · Strong’s H7200Verb  ·  Translated: see 354, saw 285, seen 124, look 45Full study and all 1,181 verses →
  • שׂוּם sûmput, place, settranslated this way 1 time of its 560 uses · Strong’s H7760Verb  ·  Translated: put 84, set 71, make 45, made 39Full study and all 533 verses →
  • כָּתַב kâthabwritetranslated this way 1 time of its 219 uses · Strong’s H3789Verb  ·  Translated: written 104, write 29, wrote 21, recorded 16

    1 Chronicles 4:41 These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings as well as the Meunites who were there, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.

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Greek words (New Testament)

How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.