'Understand' in the Bible

For this [reason] I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand,

and with reference to them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says, "{You will listen carefully} and will never understand, and {you will look closely} and will never perceive.

For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."

[When] anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand [it], the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown on the side of the path.

And summoning the crowd, he said to them, "Hear and understand:

Do you not understand that everything that enters into the mouth goes into the stomach and is evacuated into the latrine?

Do you not yet understand or do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

How do you not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

"So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken about by the prophet Daniel standing in the holy place" (let the one who reads understand),

But understand this: that if the master of the house had known what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

so that '{they may look closely} and not perceive, and {they may listen carefully} and not understand, lest they turn and it be forgiven them.'"

And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables?

because they did not understand concerning the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, "Listen to me, all [of you], and understand:

And he said to them, "So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything [that is] outside that goes into a person [is] not able to defile him?

And knowing [this], he said to them, "Why are you discussing that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

And he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"

But they did not understand the statement, and they were afraid to ask him.

"But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be" (let the one who reads understand), "then those in Judea must flee to the mountains!

But he denied [it], saying, "I neither know nor understand what you mean!" And he went out into the gateway, and a rooster crowed.

And they did not understand the statement that he spoke to them.

And he said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest [they are] in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

But they did not understand this statement, and it was concealed from them so that they could not understand it. And they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

But understand this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,

Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these [things]?

Thus many of his disciples, [when they] heard [it], said, "This saying is hard! Who can understand it?"

{Why} do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.

But if I am doing [them], even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may know and understand that the Father [is] in me and I [am] in the Father."

(His disciples did not understand these [things] at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these [things] had been written about him and they did these [things] to him.)

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with [their] eyes and understand with [their] hearts and turn, and I heal them."

Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand after these [things]."

So when he had washed their feet and taken his outer clothing and reclined at table again, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done for you?

If you understand these [things], you are blessed if you do them.

So they kept on saying, "What is this that he is saying, 'A little [while]'? We do not understand what he is speaking about!"

Now they understand that all [the things] that you have given me are from you,

And he thought his brothers would understand that God was granting deliverance to them by his hand, but they did not understand.

So Philip ran up to [it] [and] heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, "So then, do you understand what you are reading?"

So Peter opened [his] mouth [and] said, "In truth I understand that God is not one who shows partiality,

saying, 'Go to this people and say, "{You will keep on hearing} and will never understand, and {you will keep on seeing} and will never perceive.

For the heart of this people has become dull, and with [their] ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, lest they see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and understand with [their] heart, and turn, and I would heal them." '

For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want [to do], this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

but just as it is written, "[Those] to whom [it was] not announced concerning him will see, and [those] who have not heard will understand."

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

For we are not writing [anything] else to you except what you can read or also understand. But I hope that you will understand {completely},

For we do not dare to classify or to compare ourselves with some who commend themselves, but [they] themselves, [when they] measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, do not understand.

then understand that the ones {who have faith}, these are sons of Abraham.

Tell me, [you] who are wanting to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

so that you may be able when you read to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ

Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].

wanting to be teachers of the law, [although they] do not understand either [the things] which they are saying or [the things] concerning which they are speaking confidently.

By faith we understand the worlds were created by the word of God, in order that what is seen did not come into existence from what is visible.

Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming {about things} they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,

as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.

But these persons blaspheme all that they do not understand, and all that they understand by instinct like the irrational animals, by these [things] they are being destroyed.