Dictionaries :: Understanding

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Understanding:

for which see MIND, No. 1, is translated "understanding" in Luk 24:45, AV (RV, "mind"); 1Cr 14:14, 15 (twice), 19; Phl 4:7; Rev 13:18.

Understanding:

akin to suniemi, "to set together, to understand," denotes

(a) "the understanding, the mind or intelligence," Mar 12:33;

(b) "understanding, reflective thought," Luk 2:47; 1Cr 1:19, RV, "prudence;" Eph 3:4, RV (AV, "knowledge"); Col 1:9; 2:2; 2Ti 2:7.
See PRUDENCE, No. 2.

Understanding:

for which see MIND, No. 2, is rendered "understanding" in Eph 4:18; 1Jo 5:20 (in some texts, Eph 1:18, AV, for kardia, "heart," RV).

Understanding:

"without understanding or discernment" (a, negative, sunetos, "intelligent, understanding"), is translated without understanding" in Mat 15:16: Mar 7:18; Rom 1:31; 10:19, RV, "void of understanding" (AV, "foolish"); in Rom 1:21, RV, "senseless" (AV, "foolish").

Note: In 1Cr 14:20, AV, phren, "the mind," is translated "understanding" (twice), RV, "mind."