138 occurrences

'Understanding' in the Bible

and he has filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every man that was wise-hearted, in whom Jehovah had put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work of the service of the sanctuary according to all that Jehovah had commanded.

And ye shall keep and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Verily this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

And the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was a Calebite.

behold, I have done according to thy word: behold, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there hath been none like unto thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.

He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was full of wisdom and understanding and knowledge, to do all kinds of works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and made all his work.

And of the children of Issachar, who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their bidding.

Only, Jehovah give thee wisdom and understanding, and place thee over Israel, and to keep the law of Jehovah thy God.

And Huram said, Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, that made the heavens and the earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, who will build a house for Jehovah and a house for his kingdom.

And now, I send a skilful man, endued with understanding, Huram Abi,

And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and in the days that he sought Jehovah, God made him to prosper.

And Hezekiah spoke consolingly to all the Levites that had understanding in the good knowledge of Jehovah; and they ate the feast-offerings the seven days, sacrificing peace-offerings, and extolling Jehovah the God of their fathers.

And I sent for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men, and for Joiarib and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely, Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation, both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the doorkeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, every one having knowledge and having understanding,

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?

He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.

For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt them.

I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and my spirit answereth me by mine understanding.

He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

But wisdom, where shall it be found? and where is the place of understanding?

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be wickedness from God, and wrong from the Almighty!

If now thou hast understanding, hear this: give ear to the voice of my words!

Men of understanding will say to me, and a wise man who heareth me:

Lo, God is mighty, but despiseth not any; mighty in strength of understanding:

Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the mind?

For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.

Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.

My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding:

YOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.

From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path.

The righteousness of thy testimonies is for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live.

TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, Jehovah: give me understanding according to thy word.

so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and thou apply thy heart to understanding;

yea, if thou criest after discernment and liftest up thy voice to understanding;

My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding;

and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,

Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith,

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. And to him that is void of understanding she saith,

In the lips of an intelligent man wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Good understanding procureth favour; but the way of the treacherous is hard.

Folly is joy to him that is void of sense; but a man of understanding regulateth his walk.

A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

He that getteth sense loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding;

By the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; but by a man of understanding and of knowledge, its stability is prolonged.

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid.

Oh your perverseness! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?

And they that are of erring spirit shall know understanding, and the disobedient shall learn doctrine.

With whom took he counsel, and who gave him intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?

And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it, and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;

youths in whom was no blemish, and of goodly countenance, and skilful in all wisdom, and acquainted with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּין 
Biyn 
Usage: 169

בּינה 
Biynah 
Usage: 38

טעם 
Ta`am 
Usage: 13

ידע 
Yada` 
Usage: 946

לבב 
Lebab 
Usage: 251

מנדּע 
manda` (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 11

שׂכל 
Sakal 
Usage: 63

שׂכל שׂכל 
Sekel 
Usage: 16

שׂכלתנוּ 
Sokl@thanuw (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

שׁמע 
Shama` 
Usage: 1158

תּובנה תּבוּנה תּבוּןo 
Tabuwn 
Usage: 42

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ἀγνοέω 
Agnoeo 
Usage: 22

ἀσύνετος 
Asunetos 
Usage: 3

γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147

γνωρίζω 
Gnorizo 
Usage: 21

διάνοια 
Dianoia 
Usage: 11

ἐπίσταμαι 
Epistamai 
Usage: 14

μανθάνω 
manthano 
Usage: 20

νοιέω 
Noeo 
Usage: 6

νοῦς 
Nous 
Usage: 24

παρακολουθέω 
Parakoloutheo 
Usage: 3

πυνθάνομαι 
Punthanomai 
Usage: 11

σύνεσις 
sunesis 
Usage: 7

συνίημι 
suniemi 
Usage: 14

φρήν 
Phren 
Usage: 2