שׇׂכְלְתָנוּ
soklᵉthânûw · H7924 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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good sense, understanding, insight
State in which humans have the ability to understand things
ExamplesDaniel 5:11 “There is a man in your kingdom in whom is a spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, illumination, insight, and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him. And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father—your father the king—appointed him chief of the soothsayer priests, sorcerers, Chaldeans, and diviners.
Daniel 5:12 “This was because an extraordinary spirit, knowledge and insight, interpretation of dreams, explanation of riddles, and solving of difficult problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Let Daniel now be summoned and he will declare the interpretation.”
Daniel 5:14 “Now I have heard about you that a spirit of the gods is in you, and that illumination, insight, and extraordinary wisdom have been found in you.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁכַחfind 2
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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Near synonyms 4 words
- דַּעַת daʻath · H1847 · knowing, knowledge, skill
- Both words belong to the area of cognition and intellect, "knowledge" and "understanding", and overlap in the sense of mental cognition.
- חׇכְמוֹת chokmôwth · H2454 · wisdom, intelligence, skill
- חׇכְמוֹת (chokmôwth, H2454) "wisdom" and שׇׂכְלְתָנוּ (soklᵉthânûw, H7924) "understanding" are genuine cognitive/intellectual near-synonyms in Hebrew, both denoting mental/intellectual capacity.
- תַּחְבֻּלָה tachbulâh · H8458 · guidance, strategy
- Both words belong to the area of intellect: שׇׂכְלְתָנוּ (soklᵉthânûw, H7924) means "understanding" and תַּחְבֻּלָה (tachbulâh, H8458) means "good advice, wise counsels"; both describe aspects of wise thought or guidance.
- חׇכְמָה chokmâh · H2451 · wisdom, intelligence, skill
- "Wisdom" (חׇכְמָה (chokmâh, H2451)) and "understanding" (שׇׂכְלְתָנוּ (soklᵉthânûw, H7924)) are distinct Hebrew terms that overlap in intellectual sense and could substitute in many contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wise002001002029
- Daniel 5:12 recounts that “an extraordinary spirit, knowledge and insight, interpretation of dreams... were found in this Daniel.”
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7924. soklethanu שָׂכְלְתָנוּ (K§ 61, 4)) noun feminine insight; — Dan 5:11-12, Dan 5:14.
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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