בִּינָה

bi.nah · understanding

Hebrew · Strong's H998 · Noun · Sounds like: bee-naw' · 38 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

from בִּין; understanding; knowledge, meaning, [idiom] perfectly, understanding, wisdom.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בִּינָה n.f. understanding
1. the act
2. the faculty
3. the object of knowledge
4. personified

Every occurrence

  1. Proverbs 7:4 לַבִּינָ֥ה la.bi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding thy kinswoman:

  2. Proverbs 8:14 בִ֝ינָ֗ה vi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.

  3. Proverbs 9:6 בִּינָֽה׃ bi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.

  4. Proverbs 9:10 בִּינָֽה׃ bi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

  5. Proverbs 16:16 בִּ֝ינָ֗ה bi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.

  6. Proverbs 23:4 מִֽבִּינָתְךָ֥ mi.bi.na.te.Kha · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

  7. Proverbs 23:23 וּבִינָֽה׃ u.vi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

  8. Proverbs 30:2 בִינַ֖ת vi.Nat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;

  9. Isaiah 11:2 וּבִינָ֗ה u.vi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    And the Spirit of Jehovah 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 Jehovah.

  10. Isaiah 27:11 בִּינוֹת֙ bi.nOt · A person, place or thing

    When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

  11. Isaiah 29:14 וּבִינַ֥ת u.vi.Nat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

  12. Isaiah 29:24 בִּינָ֑ה bi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.

  13. Isaiah 33:19 בִּינָֽה׃ bi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand.

  14. Jeremiah 23:20 בִּינָֽה׃ bi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.

  15. Daniel 1:20 בִּינָ֔ה bi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    And in every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm.

  16. Daniel 8:15 בִינָ֔ה vi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.

  17. Daniel 9:22 בִינָֽה׃ vi.Nah · A person, place or thing

    And he instructed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee wisdom and understanding.

  18. Daniel 10:1 וּבִ֥ינָה u.Vi.nah · A person, place or thing

    In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto 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.

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