Limitless Word
חָכָםchâkâm/khaw-kawm'/
HebrewH2450137 occurrences (KJV)

wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)

KJV renders it: cunning (man), subtil, (un-), wise((hearted), man).

Where it appears(showing the first 133 of 137)

  • Gen 41:8In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
  • Gen 41:33“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 41:39Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
  • Exod 7:11Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.
  • Exod 28:3You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
  • Exod 31:6Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
  • Exod 35:10“‘Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded:
  • Exod 35:25All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
  • Exod 36:1“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”
  • Exod 36:2Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it:
  • Exod 36:4All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which they did.
  • Exod 36:8All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made them.
  • Deut 1:13Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
  • Deut 1:15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
  • Deut 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
  • Deut 16:19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
  • Deut 32:6Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
  • Judg 5:29Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,
  • 2 Sam 13:3But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
  • 2 Sam 14:2Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
  • 2 Sam 14:20to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”
  • 2 Sam 20:16Then a wise woman cried out of the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may speak with you.’”
  • 1 Kgs 2:9Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”
  • 1 Kgs 3:12behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
  • 1 Kgs 5:7When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”
  • 1 Chr 22:15There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work;
  • 2 Chr 2:7“Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in brass, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
  • 2 Chr 2:12Huram continued, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.
  • 2 Chr 2:13Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father’s,
  • 2 Chr 2:14the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
  • Esth 1:13Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;
  • Esth 6:13Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”
  • Job 5:13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
  • Job 9:4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
  • Job 15:2“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
  • Job 15:18(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
  • Job 17:10But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.
  • Job 34:2“Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
  • Job 34:34Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:
  • Job 37:24Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”
  • Ps 49:10For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
  • Ps 107:43Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
  • Prov 1:5that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
  • Prov 1:6to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
  • Prov 3:7Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
  • Prov 3:35The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.
  • Prov 9:8Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
  • Prov 9:9Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
  • Prov 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
  • Prov 10:8The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.
  • Prov 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
  • Prov 11:29He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
  • Prov 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
  • Prov 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.
  • Prov 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
  • Prov 13:1A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
  • Prov 13:14The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
  • Prov 13:20One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
  • Prov 14:3The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
  • Prov 14:16A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
  • Prov 14:24The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.
  • Prov 15:2The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
  • Prov 15:7The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
  • Prov 15:12A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
  • Prov 15:20A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
  • Prov 15:31The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.
  • Prov 16:14The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
  • Prov 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
  • Prov 16:23The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
  • Prov 17:28Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
  • Prov 18:15The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
  • Prov 20:26A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.
  • Prov 21:11When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
  • Prov 21:20There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.
  • Prov 21:22A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of its confidence.
  • Prov 22:17Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
  • Prov 23:24The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
  • Prov 24:5A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;
  • Prov 24:23These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.
  • Prov 25:12As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
  • Prov 26:5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
  • Prov 26:12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
  • Prov 26:16The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.
  • Prov 28:11The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
  • Prov 29:8Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.
  • Prov 29:9If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
  • Prov 29:11A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.
  • Prov 30:24“There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:
  • Eccl 2:14The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness — and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
  • Eccl 2:16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
  • Eccl 2:19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
  • Eccl 4:13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.
  • Eccl 6:8For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
  • Eccl 7:4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
  • Eccl 7:5It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
  • Eccl 7:7Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
  • Eccl 7:19Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
  • Eccl 8:1Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
  • Eccl 8:5Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
  • Eccl 8:17then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.
  • Eccl 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
  • Eccl 9:11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
  • Eccl 9:15Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
  • Eccl 9:17The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
  • Eccl 10:2A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart at his left.
  • Eccl 10:12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
  • Eccl 12:9Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
  • Eccl 12:11The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
  • Isa 3:3the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
  • Isa 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
  • Isa 19:11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
  • Isa 19:12Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.
  • Isa 29:14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
  • Isa 31:2Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
  • Isa 40:20He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.
  • Isa 44:25who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
  • Jer 4:22“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
  • Jer 8:8“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
  • Jer 8:9The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
  • Jer 9:12Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
  • Jer 9:17Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come.
  • Jer 9:23Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
  • Jer 10:7Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.
  • Jer 10:9There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; Blue and purple are their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.
  • Jer 18:18Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
  • Jer 50:35“A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says Yahweh, “and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men.
  • Jer 51:57I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
  • Ezek 27:8The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.
  • Ezek 27:9The old men of Gebal and its wise men were your repairers of ship seams in you: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
  • Ezek 28:3behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;
  • Hos 13:13The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.
  • Hos 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
  • Obad 1:8“Won’t I in that day”, says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.