Usually translated as
understand, understanding, consider, be prudent, regard, perceive, wise, diligently, discern, be cunning, eloquent, feel, instruct, have intelligence, know, mark, skill, think, wisely, attend, direct, inform, look well to, skillfull, teach, view
Occurrences
Bîyn occurs 168 times in 160 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Deuteronomy (5), 1 Samuel (2), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (4), 1 Chronicles (4), 2 Chronicles (3), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (8), Job (23), Psalms (26), Proverbs (30), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (20), Jeremiah (7), Daniel (19), Hosea (2), Micah (1)
- Genesis 41:33 — Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet (נָב֣וֹן) and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:39 — And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet (נָב֥וֹן) and wise as thou art:
- Deuteronomy 1:13 — Take you wise men, and understanding (וּנְבֹנִ֛ים), and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
- 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, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding (וְנָב֔וֹן) people.
- Deuteronomy 32:7 — Remember the days of old, consider (בִּ֖ינוּ) the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
- Deuteronomy 32:10 — He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed (יְב֣וֹנְנֵ֔הוּ) him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Deuteronomy 32:29 — O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider (יָבִ֖ינוּ) their latter end!
- 1 Samuel 3:8 — And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived (וַיָּ֣בֶן) that the LORD had called the child.
- 1 Samuel 16:18 — Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent (וּנְב֥וֹן) in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.
- 2 Samuel 12:19 — But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived (וַיָּ֥בֶן) that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.
- 1 Kings 3:9 — Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern (לְהָבִ֖ין) between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
- 1 Kings 3:11 — And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding (הָבִ֖ין) to discern judgment;
- 1 Kings 3:12 — Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding (וְנָב֔וֹן) heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
- 1 Kings 3:21 — And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered (וָאֶתְבּוֹנֵ֤ן) it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
- 1 Chronicles 25:7 — So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning (הַ֨מֵּבִ֔ין), was two hundred fourscore and eight.
- 1 Chronicles 25:8 — And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher (מֵבִ֖ין) as the scholar.
- 1 Chronicles 27:32 — Also Jonathan David’s uncle was a counsellor, a wise (מֵבִ֥ין) man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons:
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth (מֵבִ֑ין) all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
- 2 Chronicles 11:23 — And he dealt wisely (וַיָּבֶן֩), and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
- 2 Chronicles 26:5 — And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding (הַמֵּבִ֖ין) in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
- 2 Chronicles 34:12 — And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill (מֵבִ֖ין) of instruments of musick.
- Ezra 8:15 — And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed (וָאָבִ֤ינָה) the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
- Ezra 8:16 — Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding (מְבִינִֽים).
- Nehemiah 8:2 — And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding (מֵבִ֣ין), upon the first day of the seventh month.
- Nehemiah 8:3 — And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand (וְהַמְּבִינִ֑ים); and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
- Nehemiah 8:7 — Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand (מְבִינִ֥ים) the law: and the people stood in their place.
- Nehemiah 8:8 — So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand (וַיָּבִ֖ינוּ) the reading.
- Nehemiah 8:9 — And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught (הַמְּבִינִ֨ים) the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
- Nehemiah 8:12 — And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood (הֵבִ֙ינוּ֙) the words that were declared unto them.
- Nehemiah 10:28 — And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding (מֵבִֽין);
- Nehemiah 13:7 — And I came to Jerusalem, and understood (וָאָבִ֣ינָה) of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
- Job 6:24 — Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand (הָבִ֥ינוּ) wherein I have erred.
- Job 6:30 — Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern (יָבִ֥ין) perverse things?
- Job 9:11 — Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive (אָבִ֥ין) him not.
- Job 11:11 — For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider (יִתְבּוֹנָֽן) it?
- Job 13:1 — Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood (וַתָּ֥בֶן) it.
- Job 14:21 — His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth (יָבִ֥ין) it not of them.
- Job 15:9 — What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest (תָּ֝בִ֗ין) thou, which is not in us?
- Job 18:2 — How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark (תָּ֝בִ֗ינוּ), and afterwards we will speak.
- Job 23:5 — I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand (וְ֝אָבִ֗ינָה) what he would say unto me.
- Job 23:8 — Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive (אָבִ֥ין) him:
- Job 23:15 — Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider (אֶ֝תְבּוֹנֵ֗ן), I am afraid of him.
- Job 26:14 — Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand (יִתְבּוֹנָֽן)?
- Job 28:23 — God understandeth (הֵבִ֣ין) the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
- Job 30:20 — I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest (וַתִּתְבֹּ֥נֶן) me not.
- Job 31:1 — I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think (אֶ֝תְבּוֹנֵ֗ן) upon a maid?
- Job 32:8 — But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding (תְּבִינֵֽם).
- Job 32:9 — Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand (יָבִ֥ינוּ) judgment.
- Job 32:12 — Yea, I attended (אֶתְבּ֫וֹנָ֥ן) unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
- Job 36:29 — Also can any understand (יָ֭בִין) the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?