Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Read in context →But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Read in context →11 occurrences in 11 verses.
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bîyn · bene
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
Strong's KJV usage: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
Strong's first: Nehemiah 8:3Strong's last: Micah 4:12
Open full H995 profile →syníēmi · soon-ee'-ay-mee
to put together, i.e. (mentally) to comprehend; by implication, to act piously
Strong's KJV usage: :-- consider, understand, be wise.
Strong's first: Matthew 13:13Strong's last: Romans 15:21
Open full G4920 profile →sâkal · saw-kal'
to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent
Strong's KJV usage: consider, expert, instruct, prosper, (deal) prudent(-ly), (give) skill(-ful), have good success, teach, (have, make to) understand(-ing), wisdom, (be, behave self, consider, make) wise(-ly), guide wittingly.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 28:19Strong's last: Daniel 11:33
Open full H7919 profile →noiéō · noy-eh'-o
to exercise the mind (observe), i.e. (figuratively) to comprehend, heed
Strong's KJV usage: :--consider, perceive, think, understand.
Strong's first: Matthew 15:17Strong's last: Hebrews 11:3
Open full G3539 profile →shâmaʻ · shaw-mah'
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: × attentively, call (gather) together, × carefully, × certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, × diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), × indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, × surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Strong's first: Genesis 11:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 3:6
Open full H8085 profile →ginṓskō · ghin-oce'-ko
to "know" (absolutely) in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as follow, with others not thus clearly expressed)
Strong's KJV usage: :--allow, be aware (of), feel, (have) know(-ledge), perceived, be resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.
Strong's first: John 8:43Strong's last: Philippians 1:12
Open full G1097 profile →yâdaʻ · yaw-dah'
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, × could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-) norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, be learned, lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, × prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), × will be, wist, wit, wot.
Strong's first: Numbers 16:30Strong's last: Deuteronomy 9:6
Open full H3045 profile →gnōrízō · gno-rid'-zo
to make known; subjectively, to know
Strong's KJV usage: :--certify, declare, make known, give to understand, do to wit, wot.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 12:3Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 12:3
Open full G1107 profile →eídō · i'-do
used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent G3700 and G3708; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by implication, (in the perfect tense only) to know
Strong's KJV usage: :--be aware, behold, X can (+ not tell), consider, (have) know(-ledge), look (on), perceive, see, be sure, tell, understand, wish, wot.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 13:2Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 13:2
Open full G1492 profile →bîynâh · bee-naw'
understanding
Strong's KJV usage: knowledge, meaning, × perfectly, understanding, wisdom.
Strong's first: Isaiah 33:19Strong's last: Isaiah 33:19
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And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
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.
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, 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.
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
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UNDERSTAND', verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive understood. [under and stand. The sense is to support or hold in the mind.]
1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration.
2. To have the same ideas as the person who speaks, or the ideas which a person intends to communicate. I understood the preacher; the court perfectly understand the advocate or his argument.
3. To receive or have the ideas expressed or intended to be conveyed in a writing or book; to know the meaning. It is important that we should understand the sacred oracles.
4. To know the meaning or signs, or of anything intended to convey ideas; as, to understand a nod, a wink, or a motion.
5. To suppose to mean.
The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.
6. To know by experience.
7. To know by instinct.
-Amorous intent, well understood.
8. To interpret, at least mentally.
9. To know another's meaning.
10. To hold in opinion with conviction.
11. To mean without expressing.
War then, war, open or understood must be resolv'd.
12. To know what is not expressed.
I bring them to receive from thee their names, and pay thee fealty with low subjection; understand the same of fish.
13. To learn; to be informed. I understand that congress have passed the bill.
UNDERSTAND', verb intransitive
1. To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent and conscious being.
All my soul be imparadis'd in you, in whom alone I understand and grow, and see.
2. To be informed by another; to learn.
I understood of the evil that Eliashib did. Nehemiah 13:1.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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