'Sense' in the Bible

And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.

Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.

And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.

Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?

Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three branches are three days;

Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days;

And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.

And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.

And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.

Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:

They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.

So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.

Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.

Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.

A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.

And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.

And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

Now Jonathan, David's father's brother, expert in discussion, and a man of good sense, was a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni, had the care of the king's sons;

And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

And now the sense of the letter which you sent to us has been made clear to me,

And they gave out the words of the book the law of God, clearly, and gave the sense of it, so that their minds were able to take it in.

He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.

Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;

Give me knowledge and good sense; for I have put my faith in your teachings.

The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.

(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

I saw among the young men one without sense,

Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.

Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.

The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.

It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.

Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.

He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.

He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge.

He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.

A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.

The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.

A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.

How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.

Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.

He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.

House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

When blows overtake the man of pride, the simple will get sense; say sharp words to the wise, and knowledge will be made clear to him.

The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.

Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.

The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.

A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.

And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.

The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:

They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.

About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?

And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them?

And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them;

And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom.

Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in the Aramaean language, O King, have life for ever: give your servants an account of your dream, and we will make clear to you the sense of it.

The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.