תְּבוּנָה tavunah

Hebrew word for “understanding” · Strong’s H8394 · used 42 times in 42 verses

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Meaning

1) understanding, intelligence;

How it is translated

Glosses given for tavunah in context, with how often each is used:

• understanding 34
• understandings 4
• skill 3
• will be understandings 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Proverbs 2 (4), Job 12 (2), Proverbs 3 (2), Isaiah 40 (2), Obadiah 1 (2), Exodus 31 (1), Exodus 35 (1), Exodus 36 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1), 1 Kings 4 (1)

Forms

• תבונה 13
• ותבונה 6
• בתבונה 4
• תבונות 4
• ובתבונתו 3
• ובתבונה 2
• לתבונתו 2
• לתבונה 2
• התבונה 1
• תבונתיכם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tavunah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חׇכְמָה chokhmah “wisdom” 20
• דַּעַת daat “knowledge” 7
• לֵב lev “heart” 10
• עֵצָה etsah “counsel” 4
• חָסֵר chaser “lacking” 3
• כֹּחַ koach “strength” 4
• מְלָאכָה melakhah “work” 4
• נָטָה natah “to stretch” 4
• כּוּן kun “to establish” 4
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 5
• רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 4
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 4

Key verses

The verses using tavunah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Kings 4:29 — And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
• Job 12:13 — With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
• Psalms 147:5 — Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
• Proverbs 2:2 — So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
• Proverbs 2:6 — For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
• Proverbs 8:1 — Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
• Proverbs 14:29 — He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
• Proverbs 21:30 — There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
• Isaiah 40:28 — Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no…
• Jeremiah 10:12 — He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
• Jeremiah 51:15 — He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
• Hosea 13:2 — And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.