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Knoweth: To perceive with certainty; to understand clearly; to have a clear and certain perception of truth, fact, or anything that actually exists. To know a thing pre-includes all doubt or uncertainty of its existence. We know what we see with our eyes or perceive by other senses. We know that fire and water are different substances. We know that truth and falsehood express ideas incompatible with each other. We know that a circle is not a square. We do not know the truth of reports, nor can we always know what to believe from man. To be informed of; to be taught. It is not unusual for us to say we know things from information when we rely on the veracity of the informer. To recognize by recollection, remembrance, representation or description. To be no stranger to be familiar. This man is well known to us. To approve; to learn; to acknowledge with due respect; to choose; to favor or take an interest; to commit; to have; to have full assurance of; to have satisfactory evidence of anything.
Greek: eido [I’-do] = know [281], cannot tell+G3756 [8], know how [7], wist [6], see [314], behold [17] =, look [6], perceive [5]. Total [667 by implication (in the perf. only) to know: - be aware, behold, × can (+ not tell), consider, (have) know (-ledge), look (on), perceive, see, be sure, tell, understand, wish. Strong's Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. From the same root as eidon, "to see," is a perfect tense with a present meaning, signifying, primarily, "to have seen or perceived;" hence, "to know, to have knowledge of," whether absolutely, as in Divine knowledge, e.g., Matt. 6:8, 32; John 6:6, 64; John 8:14; John 11:42; John 13:11; John 18:4; 2 Cor. 11:31; 2 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 2:2, 9, 13, 19; Rev. 3:1, 8, 15; or in the case of human "knowledge," to know from observation, 1 Thess. 1:4, 5; 1 Thess. 2:1; 2 Thess. 3:7. Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old Testament and New Testament Words.
This word know, is in the perfect tense and can usually be used from the side of God knowing us and not us knowing God. It is different, as the definition suggests, between eido and ginosko as eido is all knowing and ginosko is a transitional knowing or knowledge, much the way all of us have spent the many years on earth and daily learning or knowing a thing.
Paul is attempting to point out that only one person in this life knows all about you. It is not your parents, your siblings, or even your wife, yet so much conversation is carried on from this light. It is you and only you who knows [eido] you in its completeness. This is why God never put the burden of educating or gaining knowledge on the teacher, for he is just the messenger and not responsible for fulfilling the message as the teacher already knows what he is teaching [or he should]. You are the sole person in a position to know you from the ‘eida’ point of view and that is knowledge in its completeness. Only you have the ability to change yourself or better put, gain knowledge and implement it into your life, especially on the spiritual side of things [from the Word of God].
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