Limitless Word
בִּיןbîyn/bene/
HebrewH995169 occurrences (KJV)

to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand

KJV renders it: 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).

Where it appears(showing the first 161 of 169)

  • Gen 41:33“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 41:39Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
  • Deut 1:13Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
  • Deut 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
  • Deut 32:7Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
  • Deut 32:10He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
  • Deut 32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
  • 1 Sam 3:8Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am; for you called me.” Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.
  • 1 Sam 16:18Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”
  • 2 Sam 12:19But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”
  • 1 Kgs 3:9Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
  • 1 Kgs 3:11God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;
  • 1 Kgs 3:12behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
  • 1 Kgs 3:21When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”
  • 1 Chr 15:22Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.
  • 1 Chr 25:7The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.
  • 1 Chr 25:8They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.
  • 1 Chr 27:32Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.
  • 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
  • 2 Chr 11:23He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city. He gave them food in abundance and he sought many wives for them.
  • 2 Chr 26:5He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.
  • 2 Chr 34:12The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical instruments.
  • 2 Chr 35:3He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.
  • Ezra 8:15I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I looked around at the people the priests, and found there were none of the sons of Levi.
  • Ezra 8:16Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, for Elnathan, for Jarib, for Elnathan, for Nathan, for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib and for Elnathan, who were teachers.
  • Neh 8:2Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
  • Neh 8:3He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
  • Neh 8:7Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.
  • Neh 8:8They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
  • Neh 8:9Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
  • Neh 8:12All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
  • Neh 10:28The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge, and understanding —
  • Neh 13:7and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house.
  • Job 6:24“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
  • Job 6:30Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?
  • Job 9:11Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
  • Job 11:11For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.
  • Job 13:1“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
  • Job 14:21His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
  • Job 15:9What do you know, that we don’t know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
  • Job 18:2“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
  • Job 23:5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.
  • Job 23:8“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;
  • Job 23:15Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
  • Job 26:14Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
  • Job 28:23“God understands its way, and he knows its place.
  • Job 30:20I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
  • Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
  • Job 32:8But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
  • Job 32:9It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
  • Job 32:12Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.
  • Job 36:29Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?
  • Job 37:14“Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
  • Job 38:18Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
  • Job 38:20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
  • Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.
  • Ps 5:1For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David. Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.
  • Ps 19:12Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
  • Ps 28:5Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.
  • Ps 32:9Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
  • Ps 33:15he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.
  • Ps 37:10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
  • Ps 49:20A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
  • Ps 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
  • Ps 58:9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
  • Ps 73:17Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
  • Ps 82:5They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  • Ps 92:6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
  • Ps 94:7They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
  • Ps 94:8Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
  • Ps 107:43Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
  • Ps 119:27Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
  • Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
  • Ps 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
  • Ps 119:95The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
  • Ps 119:100I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
  • Ps 119:104Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
  • Ps 119:125I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
  • Ps 119:130The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
  • Ps 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. KUF
  • Ps 119:169Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.
  • Ps 139:2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
  • Prov 1:2to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
  • Prov 1:5that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
  • Prov 1:6to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
  • Prov 2:5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
  • Prov 2:9Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
  • Prov 7:7I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
  • Prov 8:5You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.
  • Prov 8:9They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
  • Prov 10:13Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
  • Prov 14:6A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
  • Prov 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
  • Prov 14:15A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
  • Prov 14:33Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.
  • Prov 15:14The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
  • Prov 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
  • Prov 17:10A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
  • Prov 17:28Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
  • Prov 18:15The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
  • Prov 19:25Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
  • Prov 20:24A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?
  • Prov 21:29A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
  • Prov 23:1When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
  • Prov 24:12If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this”; doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
  • Prov 28:2In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.
  • Prov 28:5Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
  • Prov 28:7Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
  • Prov 28:11The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
  • Prov 29:7The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
  • Prov 29:19A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
  • Eccl 9:11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
  • Isa 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”
  • Isa 3:3the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
  • Isa 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
  • Isa 6:9He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
  • Isa 6:10Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
  • Isa 10:13For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
  • Isa 14:16Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
  • Isa 28:9Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
  • Isa 28:19As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”
  • Isa 29:14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
  • Isa 29:16You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”
  • Isa 32:4The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
  • Isa 40:14Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
  • Isa 40:21Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard, yet? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?
  • Isa 43:10“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.
  • Isa 43:18“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.
  • Isa 44:18They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
  • Isa 52:15so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him: for they will see that which had not been told them; and they will understand that which they had not heard.
  • Isa 56:11Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
  • Isa 57:1The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
  • Jer 2:10For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.
  • Jer 4:22“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
  • Jer 9:12Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
  • Jer 9:17Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come.
  • Jer 23:20Yahweh’s anger shall not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
  • Jer 30:24The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.”
  • Jer 49:7Of Edom. Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
  • Dan 1:4youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
  • Dan 1:17Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
  • Dan 8:5As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
  • Dan 8:16I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
  • Dan 8:17So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.
  • Dan 8:23In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
  • Dan 8:27I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king’s business: and I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.
  • Dan 9:2in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
  • Dan 9:22He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.
  • Dan 9:23At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
  • Dan 10:1In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
  • Dan 10:11He said to me, Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for am I now sent to you. When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.
  • Dan 10:12Then he said to me, Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I have come for your words’ sake.
  • Dan 10:14Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days:
  • Dan 11:30For ships of Kittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and shall return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and shall take action: he shall even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.
  • Dan 11:33Those who are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.
  • Dan 11:37Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.
  • Dan 12:8I heard, but I didn’t understand: then I said, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?
  • Dan 12:10Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
  • Hos 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
  • Hos 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
  • Mic 4:12But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.