To understand
συνίημιStrong’s G4920suniēmi
Appears in 25 verses of the New Testament
In short
Suniēmi is the Greek word usually translated “may understand”, “do understand” and “understood”. It appears in 25 verses of the New Testament.
“Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.”
Meaning
Usually translated “may understand”, “do understand” and “understood”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- they may understand 3
- do understand 3
- they understood 3
- understood 3
- may understand 2
- understanding 2
- understand 2
- to understand 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 9
- Mark 5
- Luke 4
- Acts 3
- Romans 2
- 2 Corinthians 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 13:14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
- Matthew 13:15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
- Matthew 13:19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
- Matthew 13:23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
- Matthew 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
- Matthew 15:10And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
Greek dictionary
συνίημι suniēmi · to understand
συν-ίημι and συνίω (see Bl., § 23, 7), [in LXX chiefly for בִּין hi., שָׂכַל hi. ;] 1. to bring or set together. 2. Metaphorical, to perceive, understand: Mat.13:13-15 (LXX), Mat.13:19 15:10, Mrk.4:9 (WH, mg.), Mrk.4:12 7:14 8:17, 21 Luk.8:10, Act.7:25 28:26-27, Rom.15:21" (LXX), 2Co.10:12; with accusative of thing(s), Mat.13:23, 51, Luk.2:50 18:34 24:45; before ὅτι, Mat.16:12 17:13; before quæst. indir., Eph.5:17; ἐπὶ τ. ἄρτοις, Mrk.6:52; as subst., συνίων (ὁ σ., WH, mg.), a man of understanding, i.e. in moral and religious sense, Rom.3:11 (LXX).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “understand” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
UNDERSTAND', verb intransitive
- To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent and conscious being.
- To be informed by another; to learn.“I understood of the evil that Eliashib did” Nehemiah 13:7
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.