66 occurrences

'Understand' in the Bible

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, In UnbelieversDullnessNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingJesus Using ParablesWhy God Did ThingsListening To God

And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: 'You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

Verse ConceptsReprobatesBeing Without UnderstandingScriptures FulfilledThe Faculty Of SightNamed Prophets Of The Lordfulfillment

Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

Verse ConceptsStomachsEntering The MouthDefecationOther References To MouthsSexual Purityorganizationprocess

Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristFive ThingsFive Thousand

How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Verse ConceptsLack Of InsightDullnessLeavenedNot Understanding Sayings

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.

Verse ConceptsMan Keeping WatchParables Of ChristWithheld KnowledgeKnowingThe Time UnknownThe Lord As A Thiefthieves

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven."

Verse ConceptsUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfTurning To GodNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingGod Not Forgiving

He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?

Verse ConceptsCommunicationDo You Understand?Jesus Using Parables

Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsListeningChrist Summoning

He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

Verse ConceptsExternalsEntering The MouthBeing Without UnderstandingDefilementprepping

When he learned of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristEyes, Figurative UseHardness Of HeartUnderstandingStiffnecked PeopleChrist Knowing About PeopleBeing Without UnderstandingObstinate IndividualsWhy Do Others Do This?

Then he said to them, "Do you still not understand?"

Verse ConceptsBeing Without Understanding

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

Verse ConceptsAbominationsReadingSafetyUnderstandingThe Prophecy Towards JerusalemEscaping To Mountains

But he denied it: "I don't even understand what you're talking about!" Then he went out to the gateway, and a rooster crowed.

Verse ConceptsDissentNot Knowing About ChristNot Understanding Languagedenial

Yet his parents did not understand the remark he made to them.

Verse ConceptsNot Understanding Sayings

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

Verse ConceptsDullnessNot Asking OthersFear Of ChristNot Understanding SayingsGod's Things Concealed

He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you understand it?"

Verse ConceptsReading The Scriptures

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Verse ConceptsWhen?The Lord As A Thiefthieves

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

Verse ConceptsCommunicationNot Understanding SayingsThe Father

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

Verse ConceptsCommunicationJesus Using ParablesNot Understanding Sayingsheartbroken

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

Verse ConceptsRememberingUnderstandingRemembering ChristNot Understanding SayingsScriptures Fulfilled

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them."

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartInsensibilityStiffnecked PeoplePeople ConvertedGod BlindingNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingGod Hardening PeopleNo Healingbasketball

So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them, "Do you understand what I have done for you?

Verse ConceptsSelf KnowledgeJesus Christ, Love OfClothing OneselfClean FeetCare Of FeetAblution

So they kept on repeating, "What is the meaning of what he says, 'In a little while'? We do not understand what he is talking about."

Verse ConceptsCommunicationA Short TimeMeaningBeing Without UnderstandingSaying RepeatedlyShort Time For Action

Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

Verse ConceptsReadingSpiritualityGod Giving To The Son

(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

Verse ConceptsNecessityChrist Would RiseNot Understanding SayingsUse Of The Scriptureslungs

He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.

Verse ConceptsDo You Understand?Individuals Saving OthersNot Understanding God's Thingsdeliverance

So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked him, "Do you understand what you're reading?"

Verse ConceptsReading The ScripturesDo You Understand?Named Prophets Of The LordReading The Bible

Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

Verse ConceptsThe Light Of ChristNot Understanding Sayings

when he said, 'Go to this people and say, "You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual DeafnessBeing Without UnderstandingThe Faculty Of Sight

For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed 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."'

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsLack Of DiscernmentHeart, Fallen And RedeemedIndifferenceInsensibilityDullnessNature Of The HeartRefusing To HearNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingFeelingGod Heals

But again I ask, didn't Israel understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger."

Verse ConceptsProvokingFoolish PeopleMaking Israel JealousNot Understanding God's Things

but as it is written: "Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."

Verse ConceptsUnderstandingTelling Of GodUnhearingLooking At God's WorksUnderstanding God's Wordevangelising

For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely

Verse ConceptsLiteracyWriting LettersMaking The Message ClearReading Other Matter

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand the law?

Verse ConceptsUnder The LawPositive ThinkingBeing PositiveBeing Uniquelaw

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.

Verse ConceptsTeachersTeachers Of The LawBeing Without UnderstandingThe Law ProclaimedPositive ThinkingBeing Positivelaw

But these men, like irrational animals -- creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed -- do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

Verse ConceptsDeath, Of UnbelieversDestructionProfanityWicked Described AsInstinctAnnihilationDestruction Of The WickedKilling Wild AnimalsBeing Killed Like An AnimalMen Similar To AnimalsMammalsKilled Like An AnimalPetsignorancecorruptionacting

Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges

Verse ConceptsContemptdesiresPathways Of SinScoffersEnd Of The AgesLast Hourend times prophecyDaysSportsEnd Of DaysFunmockers

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.

Verse ConceptsDelusionsInstabilityWord Of GodThe Biblical CanonFicklenessDestroying OneselfTwistingNot Understanding SayingsUse Of The ScripturesSpecial RevelationIgnorance of GodHard WorkScriptureWorking Hard And Not Being Lazyuncertaintyignorancepeter

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

Verse ConceptsInstinctDestruction Of The WickedMammalsMental Abuse

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.'

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FoodMannaNewnessUniquenessWhiteOvercomersDelicaciesUnknown ThingsHidden ThingsGod Renaming PeopleWriting On ObjectsOvercoming Through ChristTaught By The SpiritA New NameBenefits Of HeavenSpiritual crownsOvercomingChange And Growth

Bible Theasaurus

Catch (67 instances)
Collect (44 instances)
Comprehend (53 instances)
Follow (353 instances)
Grasp (60 instances)
Infer (1 instance)
Interpret (23 instances)
Master (460 instances)
Realise (1 instance)
Realize (184 instances)
Sympathise (1 instance)
Sympathize (6 instances)
Translate (3 instances)
Understand (440 instances)

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Strong's
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

G50
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

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