כִּשְׁרוֹן
kishrôwn · H3788 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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achievement, success
Process by which an activity achieves its intended results
ExamplesEcclesiastes 5:11 When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look at them?
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skill
The qualities that are needed to cause an activity to have its intended results
ExamplesEcclesiastes 2:21 When there is a person who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and then gives his legacy to one who has not labored for it; this too is futility and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a person and his neighbor. This too is futility and striving after wind.
How it’s used In 5 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַעֲשֶׂהwork, deed 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָאָהto see 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָהwhat?, why? 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָמָלtoil, trouble 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Succeed002003003020
- This word denotes an advantage or successful outcome gained from an undertaking (Ecclesiastes 2:21, 4:4, 5:11), so it belongs among words for success.
- Wise002001002029
- The same word is also used in the sense of "equity" or sound skill applied wisely, so it also belongs among words for wisdom.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3788. kishron כִּשְׁרוֺן noun [masculine] skill, success; — 1 skill, וּבְכִשְׁר֑וֺן…
כִּשְׁרוֺן noun [masculine] skill, success; —
1 skill, וּבְכִשְׁר֑וֺן וּבְדַעַת בְּחָכְמָה Ecc 2:21; construct הַמַּעֲשֶׂה כָּלכִּֿשְׁרוֺן Ecc 4:4 all skill of work = skilful work.
2 success, profit, לִבְעָלָיהָ וּמַהכִּֿשְׁרוֺן Ecc 5:10 and what profit have the owners of it ?
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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