Gematria of Wisdom
11 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “wisdom” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 956 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 11
- Occurrences
- 956
- Distinct values
- 9
The 11 Hebrew words rendered “wisdom”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
First appearance ·Genesis 6:5בראשית ו:הלִבּוֹ
wisdom (in a good sense)
First appearance ·Exodus 28:3שמות כח:גחָכְמָה
to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent
First appearance ·Genesis 3:6בראשית ג:ולְהַשְׂכִּיל
intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice
First appearance ·Exodus 31:3שמות לא:גוּבִתְבוּנָה
understanding
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 4:6דברים ד:ווּבִינַתְכֶם
properly, flavor; figuratively, judgment (both subjective and objective); hence, account (both subjectively and objectively)
First appearance ·Daniel 2:14דניאל ב:ידוּטְעֵם
intelligence; by implication, success
First appearance ·1 Samuel 25:3שמואל א כה:גשֶׂכֶל
support or (by implication) ability, i.e. (direct) help, (in purpose) an undertaking, (intellectual) understanding
First appearance ·Isaiah 28:29ישעיהו כח:כטתּוּשִׁיָּֽה
trickery; or (in a good sense) discretion
First appearance ·Exodus 21:14שמות כא:ידבְעָרְמָה
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of wisdom?
The Tanakh renders “wisdom” with 11 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: לב = 32, חכמה = 73, שכל = 350, and 6 more.
How do you say wisdom in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 11 Hebrew words for “wisdom”; the most frequent are לב (lêb), 595 times; חכמה (chokmâh), 157 times; שכל (sâkal), 79 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.