Proverbs 8:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out.

📖 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 For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion.
• Isa 28:26 : 26 And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.
• Isa 55:8-9 : 8 For not My thoughts `are' your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah, 9 For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.
• Rom 11:33 : 33 O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
• Eph 1:8 : 8 in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
• Eph 1:11 : 11 in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,
• Eph 3:10 : 10 that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly `places', through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,
• Col 2:3 : 3 in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,
• Exod 31:3-6 : 3 and I fill him `with' the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work, 4 to devise devices to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 5 and in graving of stone for settings, and in graving of wood to work in all work. 6 `And I, lo, I have given with him Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, and in the heart of every wise-hearted one I have given wisdom, and they have made all that which I have commanded thee.
• Exod 35:30-36:4 : 30 And Moses saith unto the sons of Israel, `See, Jehovah hath called by name Bezaleel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 31 and He doth fill him `with' the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work, 32 even to devise devices to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 33 and in graving of stones for settings, and in graving of wood to work in any work of design. 34 `And to direct He hath put in his heart, he and Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; 35 He hath filled them with wisdom of heart to do every work, of engraver, and designer, and embroiderer (in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in linen), and weaver, who do any work, and of designers of designs. 1 And Bezaleel, and Aholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Jehovah hath given wisdom and understanding to know to do every work of the service of the sanctuary, have done according to all that Jehovah commanded. 2 And Moses calleth unto Bezaleel, and unto Aholiab, and unto every wise-hearted man in whose heart Jehovah hath given wisdom, every one whom his heart lifted up, to come near unto the work to do it. 3 And they take from before Moses all the heave-offering which the sons of Israel have brought in for the work of the service of the sanctuary to do it; and still they have brought in unto him a willing-offering morning by morning. 4 And all the wise men, who are doing all the work of the sanctuary, come each from his work which they are doing,
• 1 Kgs 7:14 : 14 he `is' son of a woman, a widow, of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father a man of Tyre, a worker in brass, and he is filled with the wisdom and the understanding, and the knowledge to do all work in brass -- and he cometh unto king Solomon, and doth all his work.
• 1 Chr 28:12 : 12 and the pattern of all that hath been by the Spirit with him, for the courts of the house of Jehovah, and for all the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of God, and for the treasures of the things sacrificed;
• 1 Chr 28:19 : 19 The whole `is' in writing from the hand of Jehovah, `He caused me to understand all the work of the pattern,' `said David.'
• 2 Chr 13:14 : 14 And Judah turneth, and lo, against them `is' the battle, before and behind, and they cry to Jehovah, and the priests are blowing with trumpets,
• Ps 104:24 : 24 How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.