Strong's #995: biyn (pronounced bene)
a primitive root; to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand:--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).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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bı̂yn
1) to discern, understand, consider
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to perceive, discern
1a2) to understand, know (with the mind)
1a3) to observe, mark, give heed to,distinguish, consider
1a4) to have discernment, insight, understanding
1b) (Niphal) to be discerning, intelligent, discreet, have understanding
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to understand
1c2) to cause to understand, give understanding, teach
1d) (Hithpolel) to show oneself discerning or attentive, consider diligently
1e) (Polel) to teach, instruct
2) (TWOT) prudent, regard
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 169 times:
Job 36:29: "Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, of his tabernacle?"
Job 37:14: "unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God."
Job 38:18: " Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare thou knowest it all."
Job 38:20: "it to the bound thou shouldest know the paths to the house"
Job 42:3: "knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew"
Psalms 5:1: "Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation."
Psalms 19:12: "Who can understand his errors? cleanse"
Psalms 28:5: "Because they regard not the works nor the operation of his hands,"
Psalms 32:9: "as the horse, or as the mule, understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle,"
Psalms 33:15: "He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth their works."
Psalms 37:10: "a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not"
Psalms 49:20: "Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, the beasts that perish."
Psalms 50:22: "Now consider this, ye that forget lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none"
Psalms 58:9: "Before your pots can feel the thorns, both living, and in"
Psalms 73:17: "into the sanctuary then understood I their end."
Psalms 82:5: "They know not, neither will they understand; in darkness: all the foundations"
Psalms 92:6: "not; doth a fool understand this."
Psalms 94:7: "shall the God of Jacob regard"
Psalms 94:8: " Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, will ye be wise?"
Psalms 107:43: "is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD."
Psalms 119:27: " Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk"
Psalms 119:34: " Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe heart."
Psalms 119:73: "Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, thy commandments."
Psalms 119:95: "The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider"
Psalms 119:100: " I understand more than the ancients, because I keep"
Psalms 119:104: "Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate false"
Psalms 119:125: "I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know"
Psalms 119:130: "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding"
Psalms 119:144: "The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding,"
Psalms 119:169: "come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word."
Psalms 139:2: "knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off."
Proverbs 1:2: "To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive of understanding;"
Proverbs 1:5: "man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:"
Proverbs 1:6: " To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words and their dark sayings."
Proverbs 2:5: "Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, the knowledge of God."
Proverbs 2:9: "Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, yea, every good path."
Proverbs 7:7: "And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, void of understanding,"
Proverbs 8:5: "O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, heart."
Proverbs 8:5: "understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart."
Proverbs 8:9: "They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right knowledge."
Proverbs 10:13: "In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: is for the back of him that is void of understanding."
Proverbs 14:6: "and findeth it not: is easy unto him that understandeth."
Proverbs 14:8: "The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: of fools is deceit."
Proverbs 14:15: "every word: man looketh well to his going."
Proverbs 14:33: "Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: of fools is made known."
Proverbs 15:14: "The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: of fools feedeth on foolishness."
Proverbs 16:21: "The wise in heart shall be called prudent: of the lips increaseth learning."
Proverbs 17:10: "A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred into a fool."
Proverbs 17:24: "Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes are in the ends of the earth."
Proverbs 17:28: "and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding."
