I crave your pardon, holy father, and that of the admiral, too, who better understandeth me I trust, if there be any just grounds of offence.
But if the husband be indeed an ignorant sot, or have made himself unable to instruct his wife, she is not bound to ask him in vain, to teach her that which he understandeth not himself.
Or, if you have such a carnal mind and enmity, believe it not, any more than a partial and wicked enemy should be believed against God himself; who better understandeth what he hath written, than any of his foolish enemies.
To men it must be desire so expressed, as they may understand it; but to God the inward acting of desires is a prayer, because he understandeth it.
When anyone heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.
Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.
The heart of a wiser man understandeth time and answer.
For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and shall lead me soberly in my works, and shall preserve me by her power.
And heunderstandeth not that his eye seeth all things, for such a man's fear driveth him from the fear of God, and the eyes of men fearing him: 23:28.
He who hath made the hearts of every one of them: who understandeth all their works.
The expectation of him that expecteth is a most acceptable jewel: whithersoever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely.
God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.
A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandethwhat thou sayest, and will not answer.
Blessed is he that understandethconcerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds.
Said the slave, 'O my lord, wilt thou go in to one who understandeth or to one who understandeth not?
At this Barsum was confounded and the Emirs and bystanders said, "Verily, this King understandeth geomancy: blessed be He who hath gifted him!
See now here whether he understandeth what he saith, or whereof he affirmeth.
And whatunderstandeth he by “he that ruleth,” Rom.
Wherefore the Doctor himself, by the presbytery whereof the Apostle speaketh, understandeth (as we do) confessus presbyterorum.
Never do anything rash,"--this is what she always sayeth, but never understandeth that she herself always acteth very rashly.
For by the altar he understandeth our heart, as it shall be said when we treat of the dedication of the altar: it is in the middle of the body, as the altar is in the middle of the church.
Also he draweth it downwards when he understandeth the Scripture according to the 'letter which killeth'; he is drawn upwards {75} when he expoundeth the same according to the Spirit.
Footnote 451] The Lord saith by Jeremiah, 'Let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandethand knoweth Me.
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speaketh not to men, but to God: for no manunderstandeth him; although in spirit he speaketh mysterious truths.
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Man that is in honour, andunderstandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
The lady cometh to the door of the hall and seeth not the dwarf, whereby well she understandeth his treachery.
Perceval understandeth well the lion's intent, to wit, that they of the last bridge are worse to conquer than the others, and that they may not be conquered at all save by the will of God and by him that is the lion.
Perceval understandeth that it was he that held his cousin in prison, and is issued from the ship forthwith, sword drawn.
Lancelot understandeth that the knight is not overburdened of courtesy, and he seeth the table garnished of good meat, and bethinketh him he will not do well to lose such ease, for misease enough had they the night before.
Perceval understandeth the white lion's intent, and giveth God thanks thereof and draweth him back, and Joseus the young man likewise.
And they say, let him send Lancelot thither, for that he is a worthy knight and a kingly, and much understandeth of war, and hath in him as much loyalty as hath ever another that they know.
Perceval understandeth that it is the damsel of whom Galobruns spake such praise.
The damsel heareth the dwarf talking and smileth thereat, for she understandeth that blame enough hath Messire Gawain had at the assembly.
The King goeth the quickest he may toward Cardoil, and findeth the land wasted and desolate in many places, whereof is he right sorrowful, and understandeth that Kay the Seneschal warreth upon him with the others.
And this the head of Antichrist understandethvery well: Wherefore the Holy Ghost saith, 'Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea!
No scripture, nor reason, nor sense, understandeth or feeleth sin when charged without its guilt and burden.
Any man that understandeth this will conclude that to be saved is no small thing.
No man understandeth the Passion of Christ in his heart so well as he who hath had somewhat of the like suffering himself.
The more a man desireth to be spiritual, the more bitter doth the present life become to him; because he the better understandeth and seeth the defects of human corruption.
No man without Him understandeth or rightly judgeth.
The sense of feeling understandeth not the soul, whereas the reasoning power of the mind proveth the existence thereof.
The mind, moreover, understandeth not whilst the senses have ceased to function, and in the embryonic stage and in early infancy the reasoning power is totally absent, whereas the soul is ever endowed with full strength.
But listen to the explanation of the parable of the Sower: "When any one heareth the word of the Kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.
And who like him that understandeth the interpretation of this saying?
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the evil one, and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart.
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the evil one, and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart.
He is writing, not for the ignorant man, but "only for a clerk and a noble gentleman that feeleth and understandeth in feats of arms, in love, and in noble chivalry.
He that knoweth the true meaning of the Vedas, understandeth their true use.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "understandeth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
