# בִּינָה (binah)

Israeli respelling: bi-nah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H998. 38 Old Testament occurrences.

understanding

King James renderings: knowledge, meaning, [idiom] perfectly, understanding, wisdom.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/binah-h998

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/6) — Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes…
- [1 Chronicles 12:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/32) — And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them wer…
- [1 Chronicles 22:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/12) — Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.
- [2 Chronicles 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/12) — Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued wit…
- [2 Chronicles 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/13) — And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s,
- [Job 20:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/3) — I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
- [Job 28:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/12) — But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
- [Job 28:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/20) — Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
- [Job 28:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/28) — And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
- [Job 34:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/16) — If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
- [Job 38:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/4) — Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
- [Job 38:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/36) — Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
- [Job 39:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/17) — Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
- [Job 39:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/26) — Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?
- [Proverbs 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/2) — To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
- [Proverbs 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/3) — Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
- [Proverbs 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/5) — Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
- [Proverbs 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/1) — Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
- [Proverbs 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/5) — Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
- [Proverbs 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/7) — Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
- [Proverbs 7:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/4) — Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
- [Proverbs 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/14) — Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
- [Proverbs 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/9/6) — Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
- [Proverbs 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/9/10) — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
- [Proverbs 16:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/16) — How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
- [Proverbs 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/4) — Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
- [Proverbs 23:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/23) — Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
- [Proverbs 30:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/2) — Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
- [Isaiah 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/2) — 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 know…
- [Isaiah 27:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/11) — 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 understandin…
- [Isaiah 29:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/14) — 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 w…
- [Isaiah 29:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/24) — They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
- [Isaiah 33:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/19) — Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not under…
- [Jeremiah 23:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/20) — The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye…
- [Daniel 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/1/20) — And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and a…
- [Daniel 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/15) — And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the app…
- [Daniel 9:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/22) — And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
- [Daniel 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/1) — 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, but…