Strong's Greek · G4920
συνίημι
syníēmi
consider, understand, be wise
Definition
to put together, i.e. (mentally) to comprehend; by implication, to act piously
Derivation
from G4862 (σύν) and (to send);
Appears 26 times in Scripture
“Have you understood all these things?” “Yes,” they answered.”
“For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’”
“so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’””
“Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
“This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’”
“Then He asked them, “Do you still not understand?””
“Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “Listen and understand.”
“When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.”
“But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.””
“In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).