Proverbs 1:3
Perceive
Webster Definition
Perceive
PERCE'IVE, v.t. [L. percipio; per and capio, to take.]
1. To have knowledge or receive impressions of external objects through the medium or instrumentality of the senses or bodily organs;
as, to perceive light or color; to perceive the cold or ice or the taste of honey.
2.
To know;
to understand;
to observe.
Till we ourselves
see it with our own eyes, and
perceive it by our own understanding,
we are in the dark.
3. To be affected by;
to receive impressions from.
The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air below.
Strong's Concordance
H995
בּין
bı̂yn
bene
A primitive root;
to separate mentally (or distinguish),
that is, (generally) understand: -