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The concept of "explain" in the Bible often involves the act of making something clear or understandable, particularly in the context of divine revelation, prophecy, or parables. Throughout Scripture, God uses various means to communicate His will and purposes to humanity, and the role of explanation is crucial in ensuring that His messages are comprehended.

Divine Revelation and Prophecy

In the Old Testament, prophets frequently served as God's mouthpieces, tasked with explaining His will to the people. For instance, Daniel was given the ability to interpret dreams and visions, a gift that allowed him to explain divine messages to kings and rulers. In Daniel 2:19-23, Daniel praises God for revealing the mystery of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream, which he then explains to the king, demonstrating the importance of divine explanation in understanding God's plans.

Parables and Teachings of Jesus

In the New Testament, Jesus often used parables to convey spiritual truths. These accounts, while simple on the surface, contained deep meanings that required explanation. In Matthew 13:10-17, the disciples ask Jesus why He speaks in parables. Jesus explains that the parables are a means to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven to those who are willing to hear and understand. He further explains the parable of the sower in Matthew 13:18-23, illustrating the different responses to the Word of God.

Role of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit plays a vital role in explaining and illuminating Scripture to believers. In John 14:26, Jesus promises that the Holy Spirit will teach and remind the disciples of everything He has said. This divine guidance is essential for understanding and applying biblical truths. The Apostle Paul also emphasizes the Spirit's role in 1 Corinthians 2:10-14, where he explains that spiritual truths are discerned through the Spirit, who reveals the deep things of God.

Apostolic Teaching and Explanation

The apostles were instrumental in explaining the gospel and the teachings of Jesus to the early church. In Acts 8:30-35, Philip encounters an Ethiopian eunuch reading the book of Isaiah. When the eunuch expresses confusion about the text, Philip explains the passage, revealing its fulfillment in Jesus Christ. This account highlights the importance of explanation in evangelism and discipleship.

Scriptural Clarity and Understanding

The Bible itself is seen as a source of divine explanation, providing clarity and understanding of God's character and His redemptive plan. Psalm 119:130 states, "The unfolding of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple." This verse underscores the belief that Scripture, when explained and understood, brings enlightenment and wisdom to believers.

In summary, the act of explaining is a significant theme in the Bible, serving as a bridge between divine revelation and human understanding. Whether through prophets, parables, the Holy Spirit, or apostolic teaching, explanation is essential for grasping the truths of God's Word and applying them to one's life.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

2. (v.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.

3. (v. i.) To give an explanation.

Greek

1329. diermeneuo -- to explain thoroughly, by impl. to translate
... 1328, 1329. diermeneuo. 1330 . to explain thoroughly, by impl. to translate.
Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diermeneuo Phonetic ...

1285. diasapheo -- to make clear, explain fully
... to make clear, explain fully. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diasapheo Phonetic
Spelling: (dee-as-af-eh'-o) Short Definition: I make clear, explain ...

5419. phrazo -- to show forth, tell
... to show forth, tell. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: phrazo Phonetic Spelling:
(frad'-zo) Short Definition: I declare, explain, interpret Definition: I ...

1956. epiluo -- to loose, to solve
... to loose, to solve. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: epiluo Phonetic Spelling:
(ep-ee-loo'-o) Short Definition: I explain, interpret, decide Definition: I ...

1620. ektithemi -- to set forth, fig. to declare
... of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ektithemi Phonetic Spelling: (ek-tith'-ay-mee)
Short Definition: I put out or expose a child, set forth, explain Definition: (a ...

1421. dusermeneutos -- hard of interpretation
... Word Origin from dus- and hermeneuo Definition hard of interpretation NASB
Word Usage hard to explain (1). hard to utter or explain. ...

1834. exegeomai -- to show the way
... to show the way. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: exegeomai Phonetic Spelling:
(ex-ayg-eh'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I explain, make declaration Definition ...

4793. sugkrino -- to combine, compare
... sugkrino Phonetic Spelling: (soong-kree'-no) Short Definition: I combine, compare
Definition: I join together, combine, compare, interpret, explain. ...

1839. existemi -- to displace, to stand aside from
... fixed) position," put out of place; ie "beside oneself," showing someone as
flabbergasted (completely stupefied); at a total loss to explain or account for ...

2059. hermeneuo -- to interpret
... Verb Transliteration: hermeneuo Phonetic Spelling: (her-mayn-yoo'-o) Short Definition:
I translate, interpret Definition: (a) I translate, explain, (b) I ...

Strong's Hebrew

952. bur -- to make clear, clear up, explain
... 951, 952. bur. 953 . to make clear, clear up, explain. Transliteration: bur
Phonetic Spelling: (boor) Short Definition: explain. Word Origin a prim. ...

5046. nagad -- to be conspicuous
... 1), confront* (1), declare (46), declared (13), declares (6), declaring (4), denounce
(2), describe (1), disclosed (1), display (1), explain (3), fully ...

995. bin -- to discern
... 8), consider carefully (1), considers (1), diligently consider (1), discern (9),
discerned (2), discerning (9), discernment (1), explain (1), explained (1 ...

2331b. chavah -- to declare
... Word Origin (Aramaic) corresponding to chavah Definition to declare NASB Word Usage
declare (13), explain (1). 2331a, 2331b. chavah. 2332 . Strong's Numbers

6286. paar -- to beautify, glorify
... A primitive root; to gleam, ie (causatively) embellish; figuratively, to boast;
also to explain (ie Make clear) oneself; denominative from p'orah, to shake a ...

874. baar -- to make distinct or plain
... declare, make plainly. A primitive root; to dig; by analogy, to engrave; figuratively,
to explain -- declare, (make) plain(-ly). 873, 874. baar. 875 . ...

Library

I Shall Explain to You Also How it is that the Soul is Transfused ...
... 9 I shall explain to you also how it is that the soul is transfused into? I shall
explain to you also how it is that the soul is transfused into five bodies. ...

And Now Let us Explain the Cause for which the Incorporeal Word of ...
... Pronounced on the thirtieth anniversary of his reign. Chapter XIV. And now let us
explain the cause for which the incorporeal Word of God assumed? ...

He Returns to Explain the Prophecy of Isaiah.
... Chapter LXXVII."He returns to explain the prophecy of Isaiah. Then Trypho
said, "I admit that such and so great arguments are ...

But to Explain More Fully this Whole Topic for it is one that ...
... Book 2 Chapter 29. But to explain more fully this whole topic for it is
one that cannot? 29. But to explain more fully this whole ...

Victor Utterly Unable to Explain How the Sinless Soul Deserved to ...
... A Treatise on the soul and its origin, Chapter 9."Victor Utterly Unable
to Explain How the Sinless Soul Deserved to Be Made Sinful. ...

If I must Now Explain How the Just Man "Slays his Enemies...
... Chapter XXII. If I must now explain how the just man "slays his enemies?
If I must now explain how the just man "slays his enemies ...

His System Applied to Explain Our Lord's Life and Death.
... Book VI. Chapter XLII."His System Applied to Explain Our Lord's Life and
Death. And he says, as the result of this computation ...

How we are to Explain the Passages of Scripture which Ascribe to ...
... The Stromata, or Miscellanies. Book II. Chapter XVI."How We are to Explain the
Passages of Scripture Which Ascribe to God Human Affections. ...

it is Safer to Explain a Doubtful Passage by Other Passages of ...
... Book III. Chapter 28." It is Safer to Explain a Doubtful Passage by Other
Passages of Scripture Than by Reason. 39. When, however ...

Dejection of the Apostles Immediately after Christ's Death. ...
... of the Apostles immediately after Christ's Death."Their Joy and Activity at a later
Period."The Reappearance of Christ necessary to explain the Change. ...

Thesaurus

Explain (30 Occurrences)
... 2. (v.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound;
to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the ...

Explained (25 Occurrences)
... (imp. & pp) of Explain. ... 1 Kings 10:3 And Solomon explained to her all she spoke of:
there was not a thing hidden from the king that he did not explain to her. ...

Gabriel (5 Occurrences)
... Champion of God, used as a proper name to designate the angel who was sent to Daniel
(8:16) to explain the vision of the ram and the he-goat, and to ...

Figurative (20 Occurrences)
... Matthew 15:15 "Explain to us this figurative language," said Peter. (WEY). Matthew
22:1 Again Jesus spoke to them in figurative language. (WEY). ...

Expound (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To explain in detail; to examine closely;
as to expound on the meaning of a word. 2. (vt) To lay ...

Barsabbas (2 Occurrences)
... apostles and the elders, with the whole church" regarding the attitude to be taken
by GentileChristians toward the Mosaic law, and also to explain "the same ...

Simile (61 Occurrences)
... Matthew 13:36 Then having let away the multitudes, Jesus came to the house, and
his disciples came near to him, saying, 'Explain to us the simile of the darnel ...

Table (125 Occurrences)
... It has become the fashion of the newer criticism to deny the existence of the altar
of incense in preexilic times, and to explain the allusion to it in 1 Kings ...

Partridge (2 Occurrences)
... It would require the proverbial "Philadelphia lawyer" to explain this reference
to a "partridge sitting on eggs she had not laid." No ornithologist ever could ...

Nightmonster
... In passages of this tenor, mythology may explain the word itself and justify its
appropriateness, it does not explain the use of the term or disclose the ...

Resources

Does the concept of mind over matter explain some of the miracles of the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

How does creationism explain vestigial organs? | GotQuestions.org

What is the Hallucination Theory? | GotQuestions.org

Explain: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Explain (30 Occurrences)

Matthew 13:18
"To you then I will explain the parable of the Sower.
(WEY)

Matthew 13:36
Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field."
(WEB WEY ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 15:15
Peter answered him, "Explain the parable to us."
(WEB WEY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 16:21
From this time Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer much cruelty from the Elders and the High Priests and the Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised to life again.
(WEY NIV)

Mark 4:10
When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language.
(WEY)

John 4:25
The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."
(See NIV)

Acts 2:14
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
(See NIV)

Acts 11:4
But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,
(Root in WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 5:11
concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 17:7
Then the angel said to me, "Why are you so astonished? I will explain to you the secret meaning of the woman and of the seven-headed, ten-horned Wild Beast which carries her.
(WEY NIV)

Genesis 41:24
The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me."
(WEB WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 24:12
and he causeth him to rest in charge -- to explain to them by the mouth of Jehovah.
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 1:5
beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, hath Moses begun to explain this law, saying:
(YLT RSV)

Deuteronomy 32:7
Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
(See NIV)

Joshua 20:4
He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.
(See RSV)

Judges 14:16
Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You just hate me, and don't love me. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me." He said to her, "Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"
(See NIV)

1 Kings 10:3
And Solomon explained to her all she spoke of: there was not a thing hidden from the king that he did not explain to her.
(Root in DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 9:2
And Solomon explained to her all she spoke of, and there was not a thing hidden from Solomon that he did not explain to her.
(Root in DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Esther 4:8
He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.
(See RSV NIV)

Job 15:17
"I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:
(See NIV)

Ecclesiastes 9:1
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 28:9
Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
(WEB RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 9:12
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?
(See NIV)

Daniel 2:6
But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.
(See NIV)

Daniel 2:27
Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret which the king has demanded can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, show to the king;
(See NIV)

Daniel 5:7
The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
(See NAS)

Daniel 5:12
because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.
(See RSV NIV)

Daniel 5:15
Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.
(See NIV)

Daniel 8:27
I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king's business: and I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.
(See NAS)

Habakkuk 2:2
And Jehovah answereth me and saith: 'Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it.
(YLT)

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