Like so many common verbs, the meaning of "know" in the Bible is varied and dependent on context. And in some cases -- when it is connected to ideas or objects -- its spiritual meaning and natural meaning are essentially the same. When the Bible talks about people knowing each other and especially when it talks about the Lord knowing people, the meaning has more to do with the states of love within people than it does with any factual knowledge. This makes sense if you think about it. When we really "know" somebody, what we mean is that we know what kind of person they are, what their motivations are, what they love, what they hate, what makes them tick. Those things are far more important than knowing their parents' names, where they were born or what year they graduated from school. Most often then, especially applied to people, "knowing" has to do with the perceptions we have about other people's loves and the conjunction that can exist between those with similar loves, not just a collection of facts.

7209. 'And you will know that I am Jehovah your God' means the discernment then that the Lord is the only God. This is clear from the meaning of 'knowing' as discerning. One reason why 'I am Jehovah your God' means that the Lord is the only God is that by Jehovah in the Word none other than the Lord is meant, 1343, 1736, 2921, 3023, 3035, 5663, 6281, 6707, 6905. And another reason is that those in heaven know and perceive that the Lord is the Lord of heaven, and so is the Lord of the universe (even as He Himself says, in Matthew 28:18, that He has all power in heaven and on earth; in Isaiah 42:8, that Jehovah does not give His glory to another; ¹ in John 14:9-11, that He is one with the Father; and in John 16:13-15, that the Holy Spirit is a holy influence which emanates from Himself) thus that the Lord is the only God.

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