Strong's #7922: sekel (pronounced seh'-kel)
or sekel {say'-kel}; from 7919; intelligence; by implication, success:--discretion, knowledge, policy, prudence, sense, understanding, wisdom, wise.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׂ / ׂ
śekel / śêkel
1) prudence, insight, understanding
1a) prudence, good sense
1b) insight, understanding
1c) cunning, craft (bad sense)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H7919
Usage:
This word is used 16 times:
1 Samuel 25:3: "Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish"
1 Chronicles 22:12: "Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel,"
1 Chronicles 26:14: "to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot"
2 Chronicles 2:12: "a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build a house"
2 Chronicles 30:22: "unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout"
Ezra 8:18: "upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son"
Nehemiah 8:8: "of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading."
Job 17:4: "For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not"
Psalms 111:10: "is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth"
Proverbs 3:4: "So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man."
Proverbs 12:8: "A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised."
Proverbs 13:15: "Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of transgressors is hard."
Proverbs 16:22: " Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly."
Proverbs 19:11: " The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression."
Proverbs 23:9: "of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words."
Daniel 8:25: "And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace"
