Bible word study

Chokmah (Strong’s H2451): Meaning in the Bible

Chokmah (חׇכְמָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H2451 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as wisdom (in a good sense). In the King James Bible it is translated skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit..

• Original wordחׇכְמָה
• Transliterationchokmâh
• Pronunciationkhok-maw'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH2451
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H2449;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Chokmah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Chokmah (H2451) stands behind 149 English renderings in 141 verses across 14 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Proverbs (39), Ecclesiastes (28), Job (18).

How the King James Bible renders Chokmah, by count

• wisdom145 of 149 (97 percent)
• wisely2 of 149 (1 percent)
• man1 of 149 (1 percent)
• wits1 of 149 (1 percent)

Three places to read Chokmah

• Exodus 28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
• Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
• Proverbs 29:3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Chokmah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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