Cunning
עׇקְבָהStrong’s H6122oqvah (oq-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Oqvah is the Hebrew word usually translated “guile”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.”
Meaning
- Subtlety, insidiousness, craftiness
How it's translated
- with guile 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עׇקְבָה oqvah · cunning
subtlety, insidiousness, craftiness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cunning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUNNING, adjective
[G. See Can.]
- Knowing; skillful; experienced; well-instructed.“Esau was a cunning hunter” Genesis 25:27“A cunning workman” Exodus 38:23
- Wrought with skill; curious; ingenious.“With cherubs of cunning work shalt thou make them” Exodus 26:1
- Artful; shrewd; sly; crafty; astute; designing; as a cunning fellow.
- Deceitful; trickish; employing stratagems for a bad purpose.
All definitions and other forms of “cunning”
- Assumed with subtilty; artful.
CUNNING, noun
- Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.“Let my right hand forget her cunning” Psalms 137:5
- Art; artifice; artfulness; craft; shrewdness; the faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose.
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.