# H8394 תָּבוּן

תָּבוּן (tâbûwn), Strong’s H8394: intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice KJV: discretion, reason, skilfulness, understanding, wisdom.. Occurs 42 times.

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*tâbûwn* — intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice

KJV: discretion, reason, skilfulness, understanding, wisdom.

Derived from [בִּין bîyn](https://besorah.bible/word/H995) (to separate mentally)

Occurs 42 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תְּבוּנָה n.f. understanding
- 1 the act
- 2 the faculty
- 3 the object of knowledge
- 4 personified as teacher.

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 31:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/31?v=3) — I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of…
- [Exodus 35:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/35?v=31) — He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship;
- [Exodus 36:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/36?v=1) — “Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding to know…
- [Deuteronomy 32:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=28) — For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
- [1 Kings 5:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/5?v=9) — God gave Solomon abundant wisdom, understanding, and breadth of mind like the sand that is on the seashore.
- [1 Kings 7:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/7?v=14) — He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was…
- [Isaiah 40:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=14) — Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge…
- [Isaiah 40:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=28) — Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t…
- [Isaiah 44:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/44?v=19) — No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have…
- [Jeremiah 10:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/10?v=12) — God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he…