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Lexicon :: Strong's H2451 - ḥāḵmâ

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חָכְמָה
Transliteration
ḥāḵmâ
Pronunciation
khok-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 647a

Strong’s Definitions

חׇכְמָה chokmâh, khok-maw'; from H2449; wisdom (in a good sense):—skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 149x

The KJV translates Strong's H2451 in the following manner: wisdom (145x), wisely (2x), skilful man (1x), wits (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 149x
The KJV translates Strong's H2451 in the following manner: wisdom (145x), wisely (2x), skilful man (1x), wits (1x).

  1. wisdom

    1. skill (in war)

    2. wisdom (in administration)

    3. shrewdness, wisdom

    4. wisdom, prudence (in religious affairs)

    5. wisdom (ethical and religious)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חׇכְמָה chokmâh, khok-maw'; from H2449; wisdom (in a good sense):—skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
STRONGS H2451: Abbreviations
† חָכְמה noun feminine wisdom, ח׳ Exodus 28:3 106 times; construct חָכְמַת Exodus 35:35 + 15 times; suffix חָכְמָתִי Ecclesiastes 2:9, etc. + 25 times suffix; plural abstract emphatic חָכְמוֺת [H2454 Psalm 49:3; Proverbs 1:20; Proverbs 9:1; Proverbs 24:7]; חַכְמוֺת [H2454 Proverbs 14:1] (in correctly pointed as adjective construct feminine; read חָכְמוֺת De); —
1. skill in war Isaiah 10:13; in technical work Exodus 28:3; Exodus 31:3, 6; Exodus 35:26, 31, 35; Exodus 36:1, 2(P), compare 1 Kings 7:14; 1 Chronicles 28:21; of sailors Psalm 107:27.
2. wisdom, in administration Deuteronomy 34:9; Isaiah 29:14; Jeremiah 49:7 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 14:20; of prince of Tyre Ezekiel 28:4, 5, 7, 12; 17; Solomon's wisdom included this with other forms of cleverness and shrewdness 1 Kings 2:6; 1 Kings 3:28; 1 Kings 5:9 [1 Kings 4:29]; 1 Kings 5:10 [1 Kings 4:30]; 1 Kings 5:14 [1 Kings 4:34] (twice in verse); 1 Kings 5:26 [1 Kings 5:12]; 1 Kings 10:4, 6, 7, 8, 23, 24 2 Chronicles 9:3; 9:5; 9:6; 9:7; 9:22; 9:23, 1 Kings 11:41; 2 Chronicles 1:10; 1:11; 1:12; the Messiah is to have רוּחַ חָכְמָה וּבִינָה Isaiah 11:2.
3. shrewdness, wisdom, 2 Samuel 20:22; 1 Kings 5:10 [1 Kings 4:30] (twice in verse); Jeremiah 9:22 [Jeremiah 9:23]; withheld by God from the ostrich Job 39:17; of magicians and prophets Isaiah 47:10; Daniel 1:4, 17, 20.
4. wisdom, prudence in religious affairs Deuteronomy 4:6; Psalm 37:30; Psalm 51:6; Psalm 90:12; Proverbs 10:31; Isaiah 33:6; Jeremiah 8:9
5. wisdom, ethical and religious:
a. of God, as a divine attribute or energy; his wisdom is in the skies Job 38:36; by it he numbers the clouds Job 38:37; founded the earth Proverbs 3:19; and made all things Jeremiah 10:12 = Jeremiah 51:15, Psalm 104:24; it is with him Job 12:13; not to be found by the most persevering human search Job 28:12, 20; he alone knows it [H3045 Job 28:23]; gives it Proverbs 2:6; and shows its secrets Job 11:6.
b. the divine wisdom is personified: she was begotten before all things to be the architect and counsellor of God in the creation (Proverbs 8:22-31); she builds a palace and spreads a feast for those who will receive her instruction [H2454 Proverbs 9:1] (compare Proverbs 9:2-5); she teaches in public [H2454 Proverbs 1:20]; Proverbs 8:1, [H2454 Proverbs 8:5], Proverbs 8:11, 12 (see context); gives her pupils the divine spirit Proverbs 1:23; by her discipline simple become wise, rulers rule wisely, and those seeking her are richly rewarded [H8454 Proverbs 8:14] (compare Proverbs 8:1-21).
c. of man: to get wisdom is principal thing Proverbs 4:7 (twice in verse); its fundamental principle is to fear God Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 15:33; Job 28:18 (|| סוּר מֵרַע בִּינָה); and know י׳, the All Holy Proverbs 9:10; Proverbs 30:3; it is of inestimable worth Job 28:18; Proverbs 8:11; Proverbs 16:16; Proverbs 17:16; Proverbs 23:23; [H2454 Proverbs 24:7]; beyond the reach of scorners Proverbs 14:6; God giveth it to the good Ecclesiastes 2:26; men are to incline the ear Proverbs 2:2; attend unto wisdom Proverbs 5:1; seek Ecclesiastes 7:25; know Proverbs 24:14; Ecclesiastes 1:17; Ecclesiastes 8:16; behold Ecclesiastes 2:12; Ecclesiastes 9:13; get her Proverbs 4:5, 7; treat her as sister Proverbs 7:4; happy the man who finds her Proverbs 3:13; he who has wisdom is אִישׁ תְּבוּנָה Proverbs 10:23; נָבוֺן Proverbs 10:13; Proverbs 14:33; מֵבִין Proverbs 17:24; compare also Psalm 49:4; Job 4:21; Job 12:2, 12; Job 13:5; Job 15:8; Job 26:3; Job 32:7, 13; Job 33:33; Proverbs 1:2, 7; Proverbs 2:10; Proverbs 4:11; Proverbs 11:2; Proverbs 13:10; [H2454 Proverbs 14:1], 8; Proverbs 18:4; Proverbs 21:30; Proverbs 24:3; Proverbs 28:26; Proverbs 29:3, 15; Proverbs 31:26; Ecclesiastes 1:13, 16 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 1:18; Ecclesiastes 2:3, 9, 13, 21; Ecclesiastes 7:10, 11, 12, 19, 23; Ecclesiastes 8:1; Ecclesiastes 9:10, 15, 16 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 9:18; Ecclesiastes 10:1, 10 — on solomon's wisdom see above
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

28:3; 28:3; 31:3; 31:6; 35:26; 35:31; 35:35; 35:35; 36:1; 36:2

Deuteronomy

4:6; 34:9

2 Samuel

14:20; 20:22

1 Kings

2:6; 3:28; 4:29; 4:30; 4:30; 4:34; 5:12; 7:14; 10:4; 10:6; 10:7; 10:8; 10:23; 10:24; 11:41

1 Chronicles

28:21

2 Chronicles

1:10; 1:11; 1:12; 9:3; 9:5; 9:6; 9:7; 9:22; 9:23

Job

4:21; 11:6; 12:2; 12:12; 12:13; 13:5; 15:8; 26:3; 28:12; 28:18; 28:18; 28:20; 32:7; 32:13; 33:33; 38:36; 38:37; 39:17

Psalms

37:30; 49:4; 51:6; 90:12; 104:24; 107:27; 111:10

Proverbs

1:2; 1:7; 1:23; 2:2; 2:6; 2:10; 3:13; 3:19; 4:5; 4:7; 4:7; 4:11; 5:1; 7:4; 8:1; 8:1; 8:2; 8:3; 8:4; 8:5; 8:6; 8:7; 8:8; 8:9; 8:10; 8:11; 8:11; 8:11; 8:12; 8:12; 8:13; 8:14; 8:15; 8:16; 8:17; 8:18; 8:19; 8:20; 8:21; 8:22; 8:23; 8:24; 8:25; 8:26; 8:27; 8:28; 8:29; 8:30; 8:31; 9:2; 9:3; 9:4; 9:5; 9:10; 10:13; 10:23; 10:31; 11:2; 13:10; 14:6; 14:8; 14:33; 15:33; 16:16; 17:16; 17:24; 18:4; 21:30; 23:23; 24:3; 24:14; 28:26; 29:3; 29:15; 30:3; 31:26

Ecclesiastes

1:13; 1:16; 1:17; 1:18; 2:3; 2:9; 2:9; 2:12; 2:13; 2:21; 2:26; 7:10; 7:11; 7:12; 7:19; 7:23; 7:25; 8:1; 8:16; 9:10; 9:13; 9:15; 9:16; 9:18; 10:1; 10:10

Isaiah

10:13; 11:2; 29:14; 33:6; 47:10

Jeremiah

8:9; 9:23; 10:12; 49:7; 51:15

Ezekiel

28:4; 28:5; 28:7; 28:12; 28:17

Daniel

1:4; 1:17; 1:20

H2451

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2451 matches the Hebrew חָכְמָה (ḥāḵmâ),
which occurs 149 times in 141 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 3 (Ecc 1:17–Dan 1:20)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:17 - And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:18 - For in much wisdom is much vexation,
and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:3 - I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:9 - So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:12 - So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:26 - For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 - Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:11 - Wisdom is good with an inheritance,
an advantage to those who see the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12 - For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money,
and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:19 - Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:23 - All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:25 - I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:1 - Who is like the wise?
And who knows the interpretation of a thing?
A man’s wisdom makes his face shine,
and the hardness of his face is changed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:16 - When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one’s eyes see sleep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:10 - Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,[fn] for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:13 - I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:15 - But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:16 - But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man’s wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:18 - Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:1 - Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench;
so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:10 - If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge,
he must use more strength,
but wisdom helps one to succeed.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:13 - For he says:
“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
and plunder their treasures;
like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:2 - And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him,
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and might,
the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:14 - therefore, behold, I will again
do wonderful things with this people,
with wonder upon wonder;
and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:6 - and he will be the stability of your times,
abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;
the fear of the LORD is Zion’s[fn] treasure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - You felt secure in your wickedness;
you said, “No one sees me”;
your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray,
and you said in your heart,
“I am, and there is no one besides me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:9 - The wise men shall be put to shame;
they shall be dismayed and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD,
so what wisdom is in them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:23 - Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:12 - It is he who made the earth by his power,
who established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:7 - Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts:
“Is wisdom no more in Teman?
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom vanished?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:15 - “It is he who made the earth by his power,
who established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:4 - by your wisdom and your understanding
you have made wealth for yourself,
and have gathered gold and silver
into your treasuries;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:5 - by your great wisdom in your trade
you have increased your wealth,
and your heart has become proud in your wealth—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:7 - therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you,
the most ruthless of the nations;
and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom
and defile your splendor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:12 - “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD:
“You were the signet of perfection,[fn]
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:17 - Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
I exposed you before kings,
to feast their eyes on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:4 - youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:17 - As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:20 - And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.

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