Definition

to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• attend
• consider
• be cunning
• diligently
• direct
• discern
• eloquent
• feel
• inform
• instruct
• have intelligence
• know
• look well to
• mark
• perceive
• be prudent
• regard
• (can) skill(-full)
• teach
• think
• (cause
• make to
• get
• give
• have) understand(-ing)
• view
• (deal) wise(-ly
• man)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.