Strong's Hebrew · H995

H995 bîyn

בִּין

bene

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).

When bîyn is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

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

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 169 times in Scripture

Job 13:1

“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.

Psalms 28:5

Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

Proverbs 15:14

A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.

Genesis 41:33

Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:39

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.

Proverbs 8:9

They are all plain to the discerning, and upright to those who find knowledge.

2 Samuel 12:19

When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.

2 Chronicles 34:12

And the men did the work faithfully. The Levites overseeing them were Jahath and Obadiah, descendants of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, descendants of Kohath. Other Levites, all skilled with musical instruments,

Isaiah 43:18

“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.

When bîyn is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what bîyn means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Job 13:1 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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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).

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