חַכִּים
chakkîym · H2445 · Aramaic · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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A person, recognized for his wisdom and serving at a royal court to provide advice (wise (person), sage)
ExamplesDaniel 2:12 Because of this, the king became angry and extremely furious, and he gave orders to kill all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:13 So the decree was issued that the wise men be killed; and they looked for Daniel and his friends, to kill them.
Daniel 2:14 Then Daniel replied with discretion and discernment to Arioch, the captain of the king’s bodyguard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon;
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
10 occurrences in 3 groups
- בַּבֶלBabylon 8
- מֶלֶךְking 1
- מַלְכוּkingdom, reign 1
What it doesIt is the subject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- יְכֵלbe able 2
- עֲלַלbring in 2
- קְטַלslay 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
8 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for 14
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁאָרwhatsoever more 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- σοφός sophós · G4680 · skillful, expert, prudent
- Greek σοφός renders Hebrew חַכִּים as the direct translation equivalent for 'wise' across biblical contexts, representing the standard cross-linguistic correspondence for wisdom terminology.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- People001001003
- Daniel 2:12 recounts that “because of this, the king became angry and extremely furious, and he gave orders to kill all the wise men of Babylon.”
- Officials001001003007
- Daniel 5:7 recounts that “the king began speaking and said to the wise men of Babylon, ‘Anyone who can read this inscription and explain its interpretation to me shall be clothed with purple.’”
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2445. chakkim [חַכִּים]14 noun masculine wise man (see Biblical Hebrew חכם); — plural…
[חַכִּים]14 noun masculine wise man (see Biblical Hebrew חכם); — plural absolute חַכִּימִין Dan 2:21; elsewhere of the class possessed of occult learning in Babylonian V:27, emphatic מַיָא- Dan 2:13; Dan 5:15; construct מֵי- Dan 2:12. Daniel 12:14 Dan 12:7t. Daniel.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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