Strong's #2450: chakam (pronounced khaw-kawm')
from 2449; wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful):--cunning (man), subtil, ((un-)), wise((hearted), man).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
châkâm
1) wise, wise (man)
1a) skilful (in technical work)
1b) wise (in administration)
1c) shrewd, crafty, cunning, wily, subtle
1d) learned, shrewd (class of men)
1e) prudent
1f) wise (ethically and religiously)
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: from H2449
Usage:
This word is used 137 times:
Ecclesiastes 8:1: "Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom"
Ecclesiastes 8:5: "no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment."
Ecclesiastes 8:17: "yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not"
Ecclesiastes 9:1: "this, the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no"
Ecclesiastes 9:11: "yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding,"
Ecclesiastes 9:15: "Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered"
Ecclesiastes 9:17: "The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools."
Ecclesiastes 10:2: " A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left."
Ecclesiastes 10:12: "The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up"
Ecclesiastes 12:9: "And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught"
Ecclesiastes 12:11: "The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given"
Isaiah 3:3: "of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator."
Isaiah 5:21: "Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"
Isaiah 19:11: "of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how"
Isaiah 19:11: "Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"
Isaiah 19:12: "Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD"
Isaiah 29:14: "even a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid."
Isaiah 31:2: "Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words:"
Isaiah 40:20: "that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image,"
Isaiah 44:25: "of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;"
Jeremiah 4:22: "have none understanding: are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
Jeremiah 8:8: "How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo,"
Jeremiah 8:9: " The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD;"
Jeremiah 9:12: "Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth"
Jeremiah 9:17: "that they may come; and send for cunning"
Jeremiah 9:23: "saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty"
Jeremiah 10:7: "to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, their kingdoms, there is none"
Jeremiah 10:9: "blue is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning"
Jeremiah 18:18: "perish from the priest, from the wise, from the wise, nor the word from the prophet."
Jeremiah 50:35: "and upon her princes, and upon her wise"
Jeremiah 51:57: "And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual"
Ezekiel 27:8: "and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots."
Ezekiel 27:9: "The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy caulkers: all the ships"
Ezekiel 28:3: "Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide"
Hosea 13:13: "of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise is an unwise son; for he should not"
Hosea 14:9: "Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways"
Obadiah 1:8: "saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount"
