Strong's #998: biynah (pronounced bee-naw')

from 995; understanding:--knowledge, meaning, X perfectly, understanding, wisdom.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bı̂ynâh

1) understanding, discernment

1a) act

1b) faculty

1c) object

1d) personified

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H995

Usage:

This word is used 38 times:

 

Deuteronomy 4:6: "them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear"
1 Chronicles 12:32: "And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, what"
1 Chronicles 22:12: "the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep"
2 Chronicles 2:12: "son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build a house for the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 2:13: "a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's,"
Job 20:3: "the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding of my understanding"
Job 28:12: "shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?"
Job 28:20: "then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?"
Job 28:28: "is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding."
Job 34:16: "If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken of my words."
Job 38:4: "of the earth? declare, thou hast understanding. thou hast understanding."
Job 38:36: "or hath given understanding to the heart?"
Job 39:17: "her of wisdom, neither to her understanding."
Job 39:26: "Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings"
Proverbs 1:2: "and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;"
Proverbs 2:3: "Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up for understanding;"
Proverbs 3:5: "not unto thine own understanding."
Proverbs 4:1: "of a father, and attend understanding."
Proverbs 4:5: "Get wisdom, get understanding: forget neither decline"
Proverbs 4:7: "and with all get understanding."
Proverbs 7:4: "Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:"
Proverbs 8:14: "Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength."
Proverbs 9:6: "and live; and go in the way of understanding."
Proverbs 9:10: "of wisdom: and the knowledge is understanding."
Proverbs 16:16: "wisdom than gold! understanding rather to be chosen than silver!"
Proverbs 23:4: "to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom."
Proverbs 23:23: "it not; also wisdom, and understanding."
Proverbs 30:2: "am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man."
Isaiah 11:2: "upon him, the spirit and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit"
Isaiah 27:11: "for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he"
Isaiah 29:14: "for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid."
Isaiah 29:24: "They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured doctrine."
Isaiah 33:19: "than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand."
Jeremiah 23:20: "in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly."
Daniel 1:20: "And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that inquired of"
Daniel 8:15: "and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance"
Daniel 9:22: "come forth to give thee skill and understanding."
Daniel 10:1: "and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision."