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1 Kings 5:11

“And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

חָכַםchâkam · khaw-kam'
H2449 · Hebrew

Definition: to be wise (in mind, word or act)
Derivation: a primitive root,
KJV renderings: [idiom] exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.
Grammar: וַ — conjunction
יֶּחְכַּם֮ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vqw3ms
Usage: Occurs 28 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 1:10 Deuteronomy 32:29 Job 32:9 Job 35:11 Psalms 19:8

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Verse 10 Verse 12

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.