Breadcrumb Home B&A Trivia B&A Trivia: What Star Wars Character's Name is a Hebrew Word Meaning "One Who Knows"? Tuesday, September 7, 2021 Written by Robert R. Cargill, PhD Bible & Archaeology (University of Iowa) Q: What Star Wars character's name is actually a Hebrew word meaning roughly "one who knows" or "he knows"? A: Yoda, from the Hebrew verb ידע (Y-D-ʿ) meaning "to know."