To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.
To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
(v) 1 - a) to detect with the eyes b) to detect with other senses than vision - to recognize or identify as separate and distinct; discriminate - to come to know or recognize mentally - (vi) to see or understand the difference - discerner Scriptures: I Melakim (Kings) 3:11 II Shemu'el (Samuel) 14:17 Mattithyahu (Matthew) 16:3
detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
Identify the true nature of a spirit, doctrine, practice, or group; distinguish truth from error, extreme error from slight error, the divine from the human and the demonic.
