H2451

• {"n":"chokmah","s":"Wisdom. It includes skill with your hands.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=chokmah","r":"Exodus 31:3","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read wisdom, skill, or ability according to context."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He is good with his hands.** English keeps skill and intelligence in separate compartments. Hebrew does not."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Chokmah covers practical skill, craft, shrewdness and moral discernment. Bezalel is filled with chokmah for metalwork and weaving at Exodus 31. The same noun runs through Proverbs for skill in living."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English wisdom is abstract and intellectual, so the craft sense has to be rendered by a different word and the connection breaks."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a word is rendered skill in one book and wisdom in another, the two are one idea and your categories are the problem."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Wisdom is the majority rendering; skill appears in the tabernacle passages."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05d7\u05b8\u05db\u05b0\u05de\u05b8\u05d4 chokmah \u00b7 H2451"}],"src":["Bezalel: Exodus 31:3-6; 35:31-35","chokmah in Proverbs 1-9","chokmah of a shrewd woman: 2 Samuel 14:2"]}