חָכַם
cha.kham
be wise
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Occurrences in Scripture
27 total occurrences across the text
Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
Deuteronomy 32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
1 Kings 4:31For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.
Job 32:9It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
Job 35:11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
Psalms 19:7Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 58:5which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
Psalms 105:22to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.
Psalms 119:98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Proverbs 6:6Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
Proverbs 8:33Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.
Proverbs 9:9Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
Proverbs 13:20One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Proverbs 20:1Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Proverbs 21:11When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.
Proverbs 23:19Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
Proverbs 27:11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.
Proverbs 30:24“There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:
Ecclesiastes 2:15Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:16Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Ecclesiastes 7:23All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
Zechariah 9:2and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.