American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Knew; the past tense, from an obsolete present wis, Exo 16:15 . Wot and wotteth, meaning know and knoweth, Gen 21:26 39:8, and to wit, meaning to know, Gen 24:21, are also from the same Saxon root. "Do you to wit," 2Co 8:1, means, make you to know, or inform you. "To wit," in 2Co 5:19, means, that is to say.\par
Dictionary of the Bible
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WIST.—See Wit.