Da'at
/daˈʔat/noun
In Kabbalah, Da'at is the sephirah or hidden point representing knowledge and the conscious integration of wisdom and understanding.
Did you know?In the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, Da’at is often called a “non-sephirah” because it appears as a hidden or invisible point rather than one of the ten primary sephirot.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Semitic
Proto-Semitic
*y-d-ʿ
“To know or recognize; the reconstructed consonantal root underlying later Semitic words for knowledge.”
Biblical Hebrew
Hebrew
יָדַע (yādaʿ)
“To know, perceive, recognize, or have intimate knowledge.”
Biblical Hebrew
Hebrew
דַּעַת (daʿat)
“Knowledge, awareness, or understanding; a noun formed from the same root.”
Late Antiquity
Aramaic
מַנְדַּע (mandaʿ)
“Knowledge or gnosis; a related Aramaic formation from the Semitic knowledge root.”
Middle Ages
Hebrew
דַּעַת (Daʿat)
“In Jewish mystical writing, knowledge as the integrating consciousness between wisdom and understanding.”
Modern English
English
Da'at
“A Kabbalistic term for hidden knowledge or the unifying point associated with the Tree of Life.”