Psalms 94:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Understand{H8798)}, ye brutish{H8802)} among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise{H8686)}?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בִּ֭ינוּ בֹּעֲרִ֣ים בָּעָ֑ם וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים מָתַ֥י תַּשְׂכִּֽילוּ

Transliteration

bînû bōʿărîm in-the-ʿām û-kəsîlîm mātay taśkîlû

Grammar Details

*bînû*: verb, qal, imperative, masculine, plural - understand/consider
*bōʿărîm*: participle, qal, masculine, plural - brutish ones/stupid ones
*bā-ʿām*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine, singular - in the people
*û-kəsîlîm*: conjunction + noun, masculine, plural - and fools
*mātay*: interrogative adverb - when
*taśkîlû*: verb, hiphil, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, plural - you will be wise/understand

Word Meanings

*bînû*: understand/consider/perceive
*bōʿărîm*: brutish ones/stupid ones/dull-hearted
*ʿām*: people/nation
*kəsîlîm*: fools/stupid ones
*taśkîlû*: be wise/understand/have insight

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 92:6 : 6 A brutish man knoweth{H8799)} not; neither doth a fool understand{H8799)} this.
Ps 49:10 : 10 For he seeth{H8799)} that wise men die{H8799)}, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish{H8799)}, and leave{H8804)} their wealth to others.
Ps 73:22 : 22 So foolish was I, and ignorant{H8799)}: I was as a beast before thee.
Deut 32:29 : 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Prov 8:5 : 5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
Prov 12:1 : 1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Jer 8:6-8 : 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Rom 3:11 : 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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6A brutish man knoweth{H8799)} not; neither doth a fool understand{H8799)} this.
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Prov 18:2
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1 Cor 3:19
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