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# תְּבוּנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8394

**understanding** — used 42 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

understanding [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8394/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּבוּנָה: n.f. understanding [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8394/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. understanding Dt 32:28 + 27 times; sf. תְּבוּנָתִי Pr 5:1 + 7 times; תובנתו Jb 26:12 Kt (Qr תְּבוּנָתוֹ); תְּבוּנָם Ho 13:2 for תְּבוּנָתָם v. De ψ 27:5; תְּבוּנוֹת ψ 49:4 + 4 times; תְּבוּנוֹתֵיכֶם Jb 32:11;— the act Jb 26:12 ψ 78:72; 136:5 Pr 3:19; 21:30; 24:3 Je 10:12 (= 51:15) Ez 28:4 Ho 13:2 Ob 7. the faculty Ex 31:3; 35:31; 36:1 (P) Dt 32:28 (poet.) Jb 12:12, 13 Pr 2:6, 11; 28:16 Is 44:19; אִישׁ תְּבוּנָה Pr 10:23; 15:21; 17:27; 20:5; אִישׁ תְּבוּנוֹת Pr 11:12 (= Ob 8 where אישׁ omitted by scribal error); דֶּרֶךְ תְּבוּנָה Is 40:14. the object of knowledge Pr 2:3; 3:13; 5:1; 14:29; 18:2; 19:8 ψ 49:4; 147:5 Is 40:28 1 K 5:9; 7:14; תטה לבך לתבונה incline thy mind to understanding Pr 2:2; reasons Jb 32:11. personified Pr 8:1 as teacher.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 42 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: understanding (29); of understanding (5); of understanding(s) (3).

## In the verses

[Job 12:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.12/#tree)

בִּֽישִׁישִׁ֥ים חָכְמָ֑ה וְאֹ֖רֶךְ יָמִ֣ים תְּבוּנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].with aged.\[people\] wisdom and \[is.with\].length of.days understanding

*JPS 1917:* Is wisdom with aged men, and understanding in length of days? —

[Proverbs 2:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.11/#tree)

מְ֭זִמָּה תִּשְׁמֹ֥ר עָלֶ֗יךָ תְּבוּנָ֥ה תִנְצְרֶֽכָּה׃

*Word for word:* discretion it.will.watch over you understanding it will.preserve.you

*JPS 1917:* Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8394.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8394/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).