Proverbs 8:12

American Standard Version (1901)

I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge [and] discretion.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲ‍ֽנִי־חָ֭כְמָה שָׁכַ֣נְתִּי עָרְמָ֑ה וְדַ֖עַת מְזִמּ֣וֹת אֶמְצָֽא׃

Transliteration

I-ḥokmâ šākantî ʿormâ, and-daʿat mᵊzimmôt ʾemṣāʾ

Grammar Details

• *ḥokmâ*: feminine singular noun - wisdom
• *šākantî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I dwell/inhabit
• *ʿormâ*: feminine singular noun - prudence/shrewdness
• *daʿat*: feminine singular construct - knowledge of
• *mᵊzimmôt*: feminine plural noun - plans/discretion
• *ʾemṣāʾ*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I find/discover

Word Meanings

• *ḥokmâ*: wisdom/skill/experience
• *šākantî*: I dwell/inhabit/reside with
• *ʿormâ*: prudence/shrewdness/craftiness
• *mᵊzimmôt*: plans/discretion/devices/thoughts
• *ʾemṣāʾ*: I find/discover/attain

Referenced Verses

• Prov 1:4 : 4 To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion:
• Isa 28:26 : 26 For his God doth instruct him aright, [and] doth teach him.
• Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
• Rom 11:33 : 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
• Eph 1:8 : 8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
• Eph 1:11 : 11 in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;
• Eph 3:10 : 10 to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly [places] might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,
• Col 2:3 : 3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
• Exod 31:3-6 : 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, 4 to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship. 6 And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee:
• Exod 35:30-36:4 : 30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, Jehovah hath called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 31 and he hath filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; 32 and to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 33 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship. 34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. 35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, and of the skilful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any workmanship, and of those that devise skilful works. 1 And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Jehovah hath put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Jehovah hath commanded. 2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it: 3 and they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, wherewith to make it. And they brought yet unto him freewill-offerings every morning. 4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they wrought;
• 1 Kgs 7:14 : 14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
• 1 Chr 28:12 : 12 and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the house of Jehovah, and for all the chambers round about, for the treasuries of the house of God, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
• 1 Chr 28:19 : 19 All this, [said David], have I been made to understand in writing from the hand of Jehovah, even all the works of this pattern.
• 2 Chr 13:14 : 14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried unto Jehovah, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
• Ps 104:24 : 24 O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.