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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Understand

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

91exact KJV occurrences 63Old Testament 28New Testament 26books containing the word 10mapped Strong's IDs 89occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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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LAST OCCURRENCE

2 Peter 2:12

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;

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where understand appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH995
בִּין

bîyn · bene

44 times translated as this KJV form169 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH7919
שָׂכַל

sâkal · saw-kal'

9 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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HebrewH8085
שָׁמַע

shâmaʻ · shaw-mah'

6 times translated as this KJV form1,160 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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GreekG1097
γινώσκω

ginṓskō · ghin-oce'-ko

3 times translated as this KJV form248 total Strong's occurrences

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

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HebrewH3045
יָדַע

yâdaʻ · yaw-dah'

3 times translated as this KJV form941 total Strong's occurrences

v

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

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GreekG1492
εἴδω

eídō · i'-do

1 times translated as this KJV form743 total Strong's occurrences

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

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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10 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Proverbs 1:6
H995

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Proverbs 2:5
H995

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 2:9
H995

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

Proverbs 8:5
H995

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

Proverbs 14:8
H995

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 19:25
H995

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Proverbs 20:24
H995

Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

Proverbs 28:5
H995

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

Proverbs 28:5
H995

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

Proverbs 29:19
H995

A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

understand

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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