γνῶσις
gnōsis (G1108)
knowledge
AI Word Study
The Greek word γνῶσις (gnōsis) refers to knowledge. It encompasses a broad range of understanding, from general awareness to specific information. This word is used 29 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in various contexts. In its usage, γνῶσις often relates to understanding or insight gained through experience, instruction, or revelation. It can describe knowledge of God, spiritual truths, or practical skills. For example, in the New Testament, Jesus is said to have increased in wisdom (γνῶσις) and stature (Luke 2:52). This suggests that γνῶσις is not just a passive reception of information, but also a dynamic process of growth and understanding. The frequency and variety of γνῶσις' occurrences in the Bible highlight its importance in the authors' understanding of human experience and spiritual development. It underscores the value of knowledge and understanding in personal growth, spiritual maturity, and relationships with others.
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to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,
Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.