'Understanding' in the Bible
Therefore my people go into exile because they lack understanding; my honored men go hungry, and the crowd is parched with thirst.
Those who think they are wise are as good as dead, those who think they possess understanding.
For he has said,“By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this,For I have understanding;And I removed the boundaries of the peoplesAnd plundered their treasures,And like a mighty man I brought down their inhabitants,
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
As often as it sweeps through, it will carry you away, for it will sweep by morning after morning in the day; but understanding this message will bring sheer terror at night,
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.
And Eliakim saith -- and Shebna and Joah -- unto Rabshakeh, 'Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants in Aramaean, for we are understanding; and do not speak unto us in Jewish, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.'
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
“Kings will be your attendants,And their princesses your nurses.They will bow down to you with their faces to the earthAnd lick the dust of your feet;And you shall know [with an understanding based on personal experience] that I am the Lord;For they shall not be put to shame who wait and hope expectantly for Me.
Meanwhile, the dogs have a mighty appetite they can never get enough. And as for them, they are the shepherds who lack understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, each and every one.
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- Agreement (373 instances)
- Apprehension (3 instances)
- Discernment (64 instances)
- Infer (1 instance)
- Intellect (1 instance)
- Interpret (23 instances)
- Read (100 instances)
- Realise (1 instance)
- Realize (184 instances)
- Reason (554 instances)
- Sympathise (1 instance)
- Sympathize (6 instances)
- Sympathy (30 instances)
- Translate (3 instances)
- Understand (440 instances)
- Understanding (295 instances)
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- Being Without Understanding
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- Misunderstandings
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- Not Understanding Sayings
- Proper Understanding
- Scripture, Understanding
- Spiritual Understanding
- Understanding
- Understanding God's Word