KNOWLEDGE (norej), (Heb. day-aw').
The word denotes: 1. The infinite understanding of God, by which he perfectly perceives and comprehends himself, and all things possible or real (I Sam. ii :3).
2. A speculative knowledge, by which a man has a merely rational perception of things natural or Divine, without any faith in, or love to God produced or strengthened by it (i Cor. viii ; Rom. i :28; Eccl. i :18).
3. A spiritual reception of Divine things, by which, through the instruction of God's word and Spirit, we not only perceive, but arc powerfully and sweetly disposed to believe in and love God in Christ as our God (2 Cor. vi :6; John xvii :3).
4. The supernatural gift of interpreting dreams, explaining hard passages of Scripture, or fore seeing things to come (Dan. v :12; t Cor. xiii :2).
5. Spiritual prudence, and gracious experience in the ways of God (Prov. xxviii :2).
6. The perfect and immediate views of the glory of God in heaven ; in this we know God, as we are known ; apprehend his existence, and glorious excellencies and work, without any mis take ( t Cor. xiii :12).
7. Instruction, whereby knowledge is communi cated (Prov. xxii :17).
8. Faith is called "knowledge," as it is supposed knowledge, and is an apprehending of things in visible, on the testimony of God (Is. but
the text may also mean, that by Jesus' infinitely skillful fulfillment of his work, he shall justify many. (a) Saints are enriched with "all knowl edge ;" they are made wise unto salvation, and know everything important concerning it (Rom. xv :t4; Cor. :5 ; John ii :2o). (b) "Through knowledge" the just shall be delivered ; by the in finite wisdom of God, and by means of their faith, spiritual knowledge, and prudence, shall they es cape trouble, or get out of it (Prov. xi :9).
KOA (ko'a), (Heb. PIP, ko'ak, perhaps cutting off). Gesenius (Heb. Lex., s. v.) says that "Koa is a he-camel, stallion, then figuratively a firince, noble." It occurs only in Ezek. xxiii :23 and is applied to a people named between Babylonians and As syrians, located by Friedrich Delitzsch east of the Tigris, south of the lower Zab. The passage reads : "The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them." In the last three words "there is some obscurity, which the older theologians have almost unanimously taken to be the names of dif ferent tribes in the Chaldean empire. Ewald also adopts this view, but it is certainly incorrect" (Keil, Com. in loc.).