to learn: teach
la.mad describes giving instruction, acquiring it, and being trained for knowledge, conduct, or skill.
The term most often marks the giving of instruction, especially in statutes, judgments, songs, and knowledge. It also describes people acquiring what they hear or experience—whether fear of the LORD, righteousness, wisdom, or practices—and, in passive forms, being trained or disciplined for a task.
Senses in use
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Giving instruction to others · dominant
Piel forms place the action with an instructor and recipients: in Deuteronomy 11:19 the instruction is directed to sons in the course of daily life, while Deuteronomy 31:19 commands that a song be put in Israel's mouths. In 2 Chronicles 17:9 the APB renders the clause "They taught in Judah," where the teaching is associated with the scroll of the LORD's instruction.
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Acquiring instruction or a way of conduct · common
Qal forms describe those who hear, read, or encounter something and then learn it. Deuteronomy 31:12 joins hearing, learning, fearing the LORD, and careful action; Isaiah 26:9 says that inhabitants learn righteousness when judgments are on the land. The same construction can concern practices to avoid or adopt: Psalm 106:35 says they "learned their deeds," and Jeremiah 10:2 says, "Do not learn the way of the nations."
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Being trained or disciplined for a task · occasional
Passive participles characterize persons or animals by training: 1 Chronicles 25:7 concerns those trained in song, and 1 Chronicles 5:18 describes men trained for battle. Jeremiah 31:18 uses a passive perfect in Ephraim's complaint that he was disciplined, contrasted in the APB with "an untrained calf."
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses "teach," "learn," and "trained," according to the clause's instructor, learner, or trained subject. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these English terms confirm the verse-level presentation without fixing a separate English equivalent for every form.