Skill
כִּשְׁרוֹןStrong’s H3788kishron (kish-ron)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kishron is the Hebrew word usually translated “skill”, “skill of” and “profit”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.”
Meaning
- Success, skill, profitskill · success, profit
How it's translated
- and with skill 1
- skill of 1
- profit 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ecclesiastes 4:4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Ecclesiastes 5:11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Hebrew dictionary
כִּשְׁרוֹן kishron · skill
1) success, skill, profit 1a) skill 1b) success, profit
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “skill” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SKILL, noun
Calleo, that is to strain, stretch, reach, and with to perfect, that is, to make sound, or to reach the utmost limit. The sense of folly, error, sin, preverseness, is from wandering, deviation.
- The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes.
- Any particular art.
All definitions and other forms of “skill”
SKILL, verb transitive
To know; to understand.
SKILL, verb intransitive
- To be knowing in; to be dextrous in performance.
- To differ; to make difference; to matter or be of interest.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.