Now I Know עַתָּ֣ה יָדַ֔עְתִּי

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · Nov 5, 2025 · 4m

We are in chapter eighteen of Exodus with our word for today is actually a phrase. עַתָּ֣ה יָדַ֔עְתִּי now I know. It is used 9 times in the Old Testament. We find our phrase used in the sense of assuming that something is true based on one’s own thinking. Judges 17:5-6, 12-13 Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household gods and installed one of his sons as his priest. In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit…Then Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house. And Micah said, עַתָּ֣ה יָדַ֔עְתִּי “Now I know that…