12 occurrences

'Understand' in the Bible

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

Verse ConceptsGospel, Responses ToSecrecyRejection Of God's CallReprobatesBeing Without Understanding

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they sea with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.

Verse ConceptsConvincingHardened HeartsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedRepentance, Importance OfSpiritual DeafnessShutting SecurelyDefective VisionBeing Without UnderstandingFeelingNo HealingUnhearing

Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

Verse ConceptsWeaningGod TeachingSchoolbreaststryingdoctrine

As often as it passeth though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message.

Verse ConceptsEvery MorningFearing God's Wordterrorism

And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

Verse ConceptsInsanityTongueSpeech ImpedimentsRash People

Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand.

Verse ConceptsNot Understanding LanguageUnknown LanguagesSpeech Impediments

Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

Verse ConceptsLanguages

that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

Verse ConceptsUnderstandingisrael

Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsIsrael As The ElectGod, Immutability OfMonotheismOne GodUnderstandingWitnessing, Importance OfBeforeNo Other Is GodKnowing That There Is A GodTrust In God!God As The Object Of Faith

They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, In UnbelieversResponseVeilsGod BlindingBeing Without UnderstandingThose Who Were IgnorantEyesDiscernment

so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.

Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelSprinklingTributesUnderstandingMarvellingShutting SecurelyProper Understanding

Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Verse ConceptsGod's WaysProfitsWisdom, Human ImportanceInadequate ShepherdingCovetousness, Example OfSelfishness, Shown InSelfishness, Examples OfBeing Without UnderstandingGreed

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