חָכָם châkâm

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: cunning (man), subtil, (un-), wise((hearted), man).

Derivation: from H2449 (חָכַם);

Where it is used

• Proverbs 14:16 A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.
• Proverbs 14:24 The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the effort of fools is folly.
• Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool spouts folly.
• Proverbs 15:7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the hearts of fools.
• Proverbs 15:12 A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.
• Proverbs 15:20 A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
• Proverbs 15:31 He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
• Proverbs 16:14 The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
• Proverbs 16:21 The wise in heart are called discerning, and pleasant speech promotes instruction.
• Proverbs 16:23 The heart of the wise man instructs his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips.
• Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool is considered wise if he keeps silent, and discerning when he holds his tongue.
• Proverbs 18:15 The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.
• Proverbs 20:26 A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
• Proverbs 21:11 When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; and when a wise man is instructed, he acquires knowledge.
• Proverbs 21:20 Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.
• Proverbs 21:22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty and pulls down the stronghold in which they trust.
• Proverbs 22:17 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise—apply your mind to my knowledge—
• Proverbs 23:24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
• Proverbs 24:5 A wise man is strong, and a man of knowledge enhances his strength.
• Proverbs 24:23 These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
• Proverbs 25:12 Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.
• Proverbs 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes.
• Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Proverbs 26:16 The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.
• Proverbs 28:11 A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man with discernment sees through him.
• Proverbs 29:8 Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.
• Proverbs 29:9 If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.
• Proverbs 29:11 A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.
• Proverbs 30:24 Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:
• Ecclesiastes 2:14 The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
• Ecclesiastes 2:16 For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
• Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
• Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
• Ecclesiastes 6:8 What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
• Ecclesiastes 7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
• Ecclesiastes 7:5 It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.
• Ecclesiastes 7:7 Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
• Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
• Ecclesiastes 8:1 Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.
• Ecclesiastes 8:5 Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.
• Ecclesiastes 8:17 I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
• Ecclesiastes 9:1 So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
• Ecclesiastes 9:11 I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
• Ecclesiastes 9:15 Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
• Ecclesiastes 9:17 The calm words of the wise are heeded over the shouts of a ruler among fools.
• Ecclesiastes 10:2 A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
• Ecclesiastes 10:12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.
• Ecclesiastes 12:9 Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.
• Ecclesiastes 12:11 The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.
• Isaiah 3:3 the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.
• Isaiah 5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
• Isaiah 19:11 The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
• Isaiah 19:12 Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
• Isaiah 29:14 Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
• Isaiah 31:2 Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
• Isaiah 40:20 One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.
• Isaiah 44:25 who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
• Jeremiah 4:22 “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
• Jeremiah 8:8 How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
• Jeremiah 8:9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?