עָרוּםʻârûwm/aw-room'/
HebrewH617511 occurrences (KJV)
cunning (usually in a bad sense)
KJV renders it: crafty, prudent, subtil.
Where it appears
- Gen 3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
- Job 5:12He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
- Job 15:5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Prov 12:16A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
- Prov 12:23A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
- Prov 13:16Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.
- Prov 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
- Prov 14:15A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
- Prov 14:18The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
- Prov 22:3A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
- Prov 27:12A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.