Strong's #2449: chakam (pronounced khaw-kam')

a primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act):--X exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châkam

1) to be wise

1a) (Qal) to be or become wise, act wisely

1b) (Piel) to make wise, teach wisdom, instruct

1c) (Pual) to be made wise

1d) (Hiphil) to make wise

1e) (Hithpael) to show oneself wise, deceive, show one' s wisdom

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 27 times:

 

Exodus 1:10: "Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war,"
Deuteronomy 32:29: "O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!"
1 Kings 4:31: " For he was wiser men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman,"
Job 32:9: "Great always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment."
Job 35:11: "Who teacheth of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?"
Psalms 19:7: "the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple."
Psalms 58:5: "to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely."
Psalms 105:22: "at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom."
Psalms 119:98: "Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever"
Proverbs 6:6: "thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:"
Proverbs 8:33: "Hear and be wise, and refuse it not."
Proverbs 9:9: "Give man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning."
Proverbs 9:12: "If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear"
Proverbs 9:12: "If thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear"
Proverbs 13:20: "He that walketh wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed."
Proverbs 19:20: "and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter"
Proverbs 20:1: "and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
Proverbs 21:11: "When the scorner the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge."
Proverbs 23:15: "My son, thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine."
Proverbs 23:19: "Hear my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way."
Proverbs 27:11: "My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth"
Proverbs 30:24: "upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:"
Ecclesiastes 2:15: "was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also"
Ecclesiastes 2:19: "over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 7:16: "righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?"
Ecclesiastes 7:23: "have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from"
Zechariah 9:2: "and Zidon, though it be very wise."