Craftiness
עׇרְמָהStrong’s H6195ormah (or-mah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ormah is the Hebrew word usually translated “prudence” and “cunning”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.”
Meaning
- Shrewdness, craftiness, prudence
How it's translated
- prudence 3
- with cunning 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Exodus 1
- Joshua 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 9:4They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
- Proverbs 1:4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
- Proverbs 8:5O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
- Proverbs 8:12I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Hebrew dictionary
עׇרְמָה ormah · craftiness
shrewdness, craftiness, prudence
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “craftiness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRAFTINESS, noun
Artfulness; dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
- “He taketh the wise in their own craftiness” Job 5:13“Not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully” 2 Corinthians 4:2
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.