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a moral and spiritual sense; Rom. 15:21; 2 Cor. 10:12,
RV
, “are (without) understanding,”
KJV
, “are (not) wise”; Eph. 5:17,
RV
, “understand.” See
CONSIDER
,
Note
(2).
2.
(
!
, 3539), “to perceive with the mind,” as distinct from perception by
feeling, is so used in Matt. 15:17,
KJV
, “understand,”
RV
, “perceive”; 16:9, 11; 24:15
(here rather perhaps in the sense of considering) and parallels in Mark (not in Luke); John
12:40; Rom. 1:20; 1 Tim. 1:7; Heb. 11:3; in Eph. 3:4,
KJV
, “may understand” (
RV
, “can
perceive”); 3:20, “think”; 2 Tim. 2:7, “consider,” See
CONSIDER
, No. 4.¶
3.
(
0
, 1097), “to know, to come to know,” is translated “to
understand” in the
KJV
in Matt. 26:10 and John 8:27 (
RV
, “to perceive”);
KJV
and
RV
in
John 8:43; 10:6; in 10:38,
RV
(in some texts
$
,
KJV
, “believe”);
KJV
and
RV
in
12:16; 13:7
RV
,
KJV
, “know” (see
Note
under
KNOW
, No. 2); Acts 8:30; in Phil. 1:12,
KJV
,
RV
, “know” (in some texts, Acts 24:11,
KJV
). See
KNOW
, No. 1.
4.
(
# &
, 1987), “to know well,” is rendered “to understand” in Mark
14:68; Jude 10,
RV
, 2nd clause (
KJV
, “know”). See
KNOW
, No. 5.
5.
$
(
1
, 4441), “to inquire,” is rendered “to understand” in
Acts 23:34. See
INQUIRE
.
6.
(
$&
, 1107), “to make known,” is rendered “I give … to understand”
in 1 Cor. 12:3. See
KNOW
, No. 8.
7.
(
!
, 50), “to be ignorant,” is rendered “they understood not” in Mark
9:32; Luke 9:45; in 2 Pet. 2:12,
KJV
,
RV
, “they are ignorant of” See
IGNORANT
, B, No. 1.
Notes:
(1) In 1 Cor. 13:2,
KJV
,
, “to know, to perceive,” is rendered “understand”
(
RV
, “know”); so in 14:16. (2) For
, rendered “understand in Acts 23:27,
KJV
,
see
LEARN
, No. 1. (3) In 1 Cor. 13:11,
KJV
,
, “to be minded,” is rendered “I
understood” (
RV
, “I felt”). (4) For
$
, Luke 1:3,
KJV
, “have perfect
understanding of,” see
TRACE
.
B. Adjectives.
1.
$
(
E
, 2154), primarily denotes “conspicuous” or “glorious” (as in Ps.
81:3, Sept.;
RV
, “solemn”¶), then, “distinct, clear to understanding,” 1 Cor. 14:9, “easy to
be understood” (
KJV
, marg., “significant”).¶
2.
$
(
, 1425), “hard to be understood” (
$
, a prefix like Eng.,
“mis- or un-,” and A, No. 2), occurs in 2 Pet. 3:16.¶
UNDERSTANDING
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
, 3563), for which see
MIND
, No. 1, is translated “understanding” in
Luke 24:45,
KJV
(
RV
, “mind”); 1 Cor. 14:14, 15 (twice), 19; Phil. 4:7; Rev. 13:18.
2.
$
(
"
, 4907), akin to
$
, “to set together, to understand,” denotes
(a) “the understanding, the mind or intelligence,” Mark 12:33; (b) “understanding,
reflective thought,” Luke 2:47; 1 Cor. 1:19,
RV
, “prudence”, Eph. 3:4,
RV
(KV,
“knowledge”); Col. 1:9; 2:2; 2 Tim. 2:7.¶ See
PRUDENCE
, No. 2.