2449 - chakam

Strong's Concordance

Original word: חָכַם
Transliteration: chakam
Definition (short): wise
Definition (full): to be wise

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to be wise
NASB Translation: acting wisely (1), becomes (1), been...wise (1), deal wisely (1), exceedingly (1), make me wiser (1), makes us wiser (1), making wise (1), skillful (1), teach his wisdom (1), wise (16), wiser (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

A primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act) -- X exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.
KJV: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
NASB: "Come, let us deal wisely with them, or else they will multiply and in the event of war, they will also join themselves to those who hate us, and fight against us and depart from the land."
KJV: O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
NASB: "Would that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would discern their future!
KJV: For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
NASB: For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was known in all the surrounding nations.
KJV: Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
NASB: "The abundant in years may not be wise, Nor may elders understand justice.
KJV: Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
NASB: Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'