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Psalm 94

Psa. 94:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Understand
biyn (Hebrew #995)
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
KJV usage: 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).
Pronounce: bene
Origin: a primitive root
w, ye brutish
ba`ar (Hebrew #1197)
to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); also (as denominative from 1198) to be(-come) brutish
KJV usage: be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set ((on fire)), waste.
Pronounce: baw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
among the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
: and ye fools
kciyl (Hebrew #3684)
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish).
Pronounce: kes-eel'
Origin: from 3688
, when will ye be wise
sakal (Hebrew #7919)
to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent
KJV usage: consider, expert, instruct, prosper, (deal) prudent(-ly), (give) skill(-ful), have good success, teach, (have, make to) understand(-ing), wisdom, (be, behave self, consider, make) wise(- ly), guide wittingly.
Pronounce: saw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
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Psa. 92:6• 6A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it. (Psa. 92:6)
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Rom. 3:11• 11there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God. (Rom. 3:11)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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brutish.
Psa. 49:10• 10For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others. (Psa. 49:10)
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Psa. 73:22• 22Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee. (Psa. 73:22)
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Psa. 92:6• 6A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it. (Psa. 92:6)
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Prov. 12:1• 1Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish. (Prov. 12:1)
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Isa. 27:11• 11When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour. (Isa. 27:11)
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Jer. 8:6‑8• 6I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse rushing into the battle.
 7Even a stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of Jehovah.
 8How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? Behold, certainly the lying pen of the scribes hath made it falsehood. (Jer. 8:6‑8)
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Jer. 10:8• 8But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock. (Jer. 10:8)
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Rom. 3:11• 11there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God. (Rom. 3:11)
fools.
Deut. 32:29• 29Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end! (Deut. 32:29)
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Prov. 1:22• 22How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge? (Prov. 1:22)
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Prov. 8:5• 5O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense. (Prov. 8:5)
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Titus 3:3• 3For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)
• The remnant then plead with the apostate nation to consider that the Lord knows and sees all of their wickedness and therefore to repent of it. They exhort any among them to be found in the way of “the blessed man” who waits on God and is instructed out of His law (vs. 8-15). (“Book 4.” by B. Anstey)
• (vv. 8-11) A solemn warning is addressed to the unbelieving mass of the nation, who are in alliance with the wicked, as to the folly and evil of their way. They are addressed as the “brutish among the people.” (“Psalms 94” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?