'Understand' in the Bible

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand.

So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?

Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

"When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand.

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"

But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.

They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them.

He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

But they didn't understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?

They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, but you will understand later."

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

"Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn't understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.'

But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven't heard will understand."

So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.