Bible word study

Binah (Strong’s H998): Meaning in the Bible

Binah (בִּינָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H998 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as understanding. In the King James Bible it is translated knowledge, meaning, understanding, wisdom..

• Original wordבִּינָה
• Transliterationbîynâh
• Pronunciationbee-naw'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH998
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H995;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Binah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Binah (H998) stands behind 38 English renderings in 38 verses across 8 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Proverbs (14), Job (9), Isaiah (5).

How the King James Bible renders Binah, by count

• understanding32 of 38 (84 percent)
• wisdom2 of 38 (5 percent)
• knowledge1 of 38 (3 percent)
• meaning1 of 38 (3 percent)
• perfectly1 of 38 (3 percent)
• understand1 of 38 (3 percent)

Three places to read Binah

• Deuteronomy 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
• Job 39:17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
• Proverbs 23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Binah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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