bina · understanding

What it means

bina (בִּינָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “understanding”.

The ability to comprehend and to tell one thing from another.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The ability to grasp and tell apart.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×9
• Proverbs×14
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1
• Daniel×4

• Deuteronomy 4:6

  Keep them and carry them out, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the eyes of the peoples, who will hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

• 1 Chronicles 12:32

  and of the sons of Issachar, who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel should do, their heads, two hundred, and all their brothers at their command;

• 1 Chronicles 22:12

  Only may YHWH give you discretion and understanding and put you in charge over Israel, so that you keep the law of YHWH your Elohim.

• 2 Chronicles 2:12

  Huram said, “Blessed be YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, knowing prudence and understanding, who will build a house for YHWH and a house for his kingdom.

• 2 Chronicles 2:13

  So now I have sent a wise man, knowing understanding, Huram-abi,

• Job 20:3

  A correction that shames me I hear, and a spirit from my understanding answers me.

• Job 28:12

  But wisdom, from where will it be found? And where is the place of understanding?

• Job 28:20

  But wisdom, from where does it come? And where is the place of understanding?

• Job 28:28

  And he said to the human being, ‘Look, the fear of Adonai, that is wisdom, and turning away from evil, understanding.’”

• Job 34:16

  And if you have understanding, hear this; give ear to the sound of my words.

• Job 38:4

  Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare it, if you know understanding.

• Job 38:36

  Who has put wisdom in the inmost parts, or who has given understanding to the mind?

• Job 39:17

  for Eloah has made her forget wisdom, and has not given her a share in understanding.

• Job 39:26

  Is it by your understanding that the hawk flies, and spreads its wings toward the south?

• Proverbs 1:2

  to know wisdom and correction, to understand the sayings of understanding;

• Proverbs 2:3

  if truly you call out to understanding, and raise your voice to insight;

• Proverbs 3:5

  Trust in YHWH with all your heart, and on your own understanding do not lean.

• Proverbs 4:1

  Hear, sons, the correction of a father, and be attentive to know understanding.

• Proverbs 4:5

  Acquire wisdom; acquire understanding; do not forget, and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth.

• Proverbs 4:7

  The beginning of wisdom: acquire wisdom, and with all you possess acquire understanding.

• Proverbs 7:4

  Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding “kinsman,”

• Proverbs 8:14

  Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I am understanding; might is mine.

• Proverbs 9:6

  Leave simpleness, and live; and walk in the way of understanding.”

• Proverbs 9:10

  The start of wisdom is the fear of YHWH, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

• Proverbs 16:16

  To acquire wisdom, how much better than gold! And to acquire understanding, more to be chosen than silver!

• Proverbs 23:4

  Do not wear yourself out to get rich; from your own understanding desist.

• Proverbs 23:23

  Buy truth, and do not sell it; wisdom, correction, and understanding.

• Proverbs 30:2

  For I am more brutish than any man, and I do not have the understanding of a human being.

• Isaiah 11:2

  And the spirit of YHWH will rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of YHWH.

• Isaiah 27:11

  When its boughs dry up, they will be broken; women will come and set it on fire. For it is not a people of understanding; therefore its Maker will not have compassion on it, and the one who formed it will not show it favor.

• Isaiah 29:14

  therefore look, I will again do wonders with this people, a wonder and a marvel; and the wisdom of its wise men will perish, and the understanding of its men of understanding will be hidden.”

• Isaiah 29:24

  And those who stray in spirit will know understanding, and those who murmur will learn teaching.”

• Isaiah 33:19

  The insolent people you will not see, a people of speech too deep to understand, of a stammering tongue without understanding.

• Jeremiah 23:20

  The anger of YHWH will not turn back until he has done and until he has carried out the purposes of his heart; in the last days you will understand it with understanding.

• Daniel 1:20

  And in every matter of wisdom and understanding that the king asked of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and the enchanters who were in all his kingdom.

• Daniel 8:15

  And it happened, when I, Daniel, saw the vision, that I sought understanding; and look, standing before me was one with the appearance of a man.

• Daniel 9:22

  And he made me understand and spoke with me and said, “Daniel, now I have come out to give you insight and understanding.

• Daniel 10:1

  In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the word was truth, and a great conflict; and he understood the word and had understanding in the vision.