To know a woman (to know a man)
In plain language: He slept with a woman.
("Look here, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them what is good in your eyes. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof" - Genesis 19:8 (Lot to the men of Sodom who had gathered at the doorway of his house); and also: "And Dinah had not known a man, and she remained bound to widowhood all her days" - Saul Tchernichovsky / Dinah; and also: "There is no trace of apples or serpent / that garden is as innocent as can be / this man has not yet known a woman" - Nathan Jonathan / I Left You One Picture)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
יֶדַע אִשָּׁה (יָדְעָה אִישׁ)
Definition (Hebrew)
בְּלָשׁוֹן נְקִיָּה: שָׁכַב עִם אִשָּׁה.
("הִנֵּה נָא לִי שְׁתֵּי בָנוֹת אֲשֶׁר לֹא יָדְעוּ אִישׁ אוֹצִיאָה נָּא אֶתְהֶן אֲלֵיכֶם וַעֲשׂוּ לָהֶן כַּטּוֹב בְּעֵינֵיכֶם, רַק לָאֲנָשִׁים הָאֵל אַל תַּעֲשׂוּ דָבָר כִּי עַל כֵּן בָּאוּ בְּצֵל קֹרָתִי"- בְּרֵאשִׁית יט ח (לוֹט לְאַנְשֵׁי סְדוֹם שֶׁצְּבָאוֹ עַל פֶּתַח בֵּיתוֹ), וְכֵן:"וְדִינָה לֹא יָדְעָה אִישׁ וַתְּהִי צְרוּרָה אַלְמָנוֹת חַיּוּת כָּל יָמֶיהָ"- שָׁאוּל טְשֶׁרְנִיחוֹבְסְקִי/ פָּרָשַׁת דִּינָה, וְכֵן:"אֵין שָׁם זֵכֶר לְתַפּוּחִים אוֹ נָחָשׁ/ הַגַּן הַהוּא תָּמִים כַּבְּכִי/ הַגֶּבֶר הַזֶּה עוֹד לֹא יָדַע אִשָּׁה"- נָתָן יוֹנָתָן/ הִשְׁאַרְתִּי לָךְ תְּמוּנָה אַחַת)