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
Open full H998 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
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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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