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חׇכְמָה chokmâh · H2451 · wisdom, intelligence, skill

Both words are abstract nouns for wisdom and skilfulness, and they are distinct Hebrew roots with overlapping sense.

חׇכְמוֹת chokmôwth · H2454 · wisdom, intelligence, skill

Both words denote mental acuity: חׇכְמוֹת is rendered "wisdom, every wise (woman)" and תָּבוּן "discretion, skilfulness, understanding, wisdom".

שֶׂכֶל sekel · H7922 · good sense, understanding, insight

Both words are abstract nouns for intellectual qualities, with shared senses of discretion, understanding and wisdom, so they can serve as interchangeable terms for mental virtue.

מַדָּע maddâʻ · H4093 · knowledge, learning, thought

Both lexemes' glosses overlap — "knowledge/thought" (מַדָּע (maddâʻ, H4093)) and "discretion/understanding/wisdom" (תָּבוּן (tâbûwn, H8394)) — describing related mental capacities that can substitute for each other in many contexts, making them near-synonyms within the wisdom vocabulary.

דַּעַת daʻath · H1847 · knowing, knowledge, skill

דַּעַת centers on knowledge and awareness, while תָּבוּן centers on understanding and discernment. They are closely related intellectual qualities that can substitute for each other in many contexts, and both appear in wisdom literature.

σύνεσις sýnesis · G4907 · understanding, what is understood, to be able to comprehend

Greek σύνεσις (sýnesis, G4907) serves as the primary LXX rendering of Hebrew תָּבוּן (tâbûwn, H8394), both denoting intelligent comprehension and the mental faculty of putting together knowledge into understanding.

φρόνησις phrónēsis · G5428 · thoughtful planning, way of thinking, outlook

Greek φρόνησις denotes practical wisdom and insight as a mental faculty, directly corresponding to Hebrew תָּבוּן's semantic range of understanding, discernment, and skillful reasoning; both terms emphasize intellectual comprehension and prudent judgment as cognitive capacities.

φρόνιμος phrónimos · G5429 · wise, wisely, with understanding

Hebrew תָּבוּן emphasizes the cognitive faculty of understanding and wisdom as an acquired capacity, while Greek φρόνιμος denotes the practical manifestation of that understanding in prudent, sagacious behavior and discretion.

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This noun denotes understanding, as in Exodus 31:3's account of Bezalel being filled with the Spirit of God in wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

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.