חָכַם
châkam · khaw-kam'
to be wise (in mind, word or act)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root,
to be wise (in mind, word or act)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the open hand that covers › water, chaos, the mighty deep
To separate and protect of the open hand that covers of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָכַם above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
27 occurrences · 27 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and be wise3 · 11%
- wise3 · 11%
- be wise2 · 7%
- let us deal wisely1 · 4%
- they were wise1 · 4%
- for he was wiser1 · 4%
- are not always wise1 · 4%
- and maketh us wiser1 · 4%
- making wise1 · 4%
- never so wisely1 · 4%
- wisdom1 · 4%
- hast made me wiser1 · 4%
- man, and he will be yet wiser1 · 4%
- if thou be wise1 · 4%
- thou shalt be wise1 · 4%
- men shall be wise1 · 4%
- that thou mayest be wise1 · 4%
- thereby is not wise1 · 4%
- is made wise1 · 4%
- but they are exceeding1 · 4%
- and wherein i have shewed myself wise1 · 4%
- i will be wise1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.