Bible Encyclopedia: Cleverness

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Greek

3834. panourgia -- cleverness, craftiness
... cleverness, craftiness. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: panourgia
Phonetic Spelling: (pan-oorg-ee'-ah) Short Definition: cunning, craftiness ...
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4907. sunesis -- a running together, spec. understanding
... Word Origin from suniemi Definition a running together, spec. understanding NASB
Word Usage cleverness (1), insight (1), understanding (5). ...
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4678. sophia -- skill, wisdom
... wisdom."]. Word Origin from sophos Definition skill, wisdom NASB Word Usage
cleverness (1), learning (1), wisdom (49). wisdom. From ...
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Library

Innocent Alypius, Being Apprehended as a Thief, is Set at Liberty ...
... Book VI. Chapter IX."Innocent Alypius, Being Apprehended as a Thief,
is Set at Liberty by the Cleverness of an Architect. 14. ...
/.../chapter ix innocent alypius being apprehended.htm

The Beginning and End of Wisdom
... are violent and impatient; if you are selfish and self-conceited; if you are weak
and self-indulgent, given up to your own pleasures, your cleverness will be ...
/.../kingsley/the good news of god/sermon xxii the beginning and.htm

Daily Bread.
... heathen possessed. They would shut God out of the world of Nature, and see
in a harvest-field only man's cleverness and energy. Let ...
/.../the life of duty a years plain sermons v 2/sermon lxii daily bread.htm

Chapter iii
... This was a purely harmless cleverness, after the pattern of (Matthew 10:16). ... But
her advantages are sufficient amply to offset the cleverness of the attack. ...
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Manasseh
... It is the easiest thing in the world to undo and overturn; there is no cleverness
and courage required for destroying, the cleverness and courage are called ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/milligan/men of the bible some lesser-known/manasseh.htm

Cast Your Eye Round the Room in which You Sit...
... Cleverness shall be left for men and wisdom for women. For cleverness kills
wisdom; that is one of the few sad and certain things. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 17 cast your eye.htm

1 Cor. Ii. 1, 2
... not so: for neither doth the Spirit enter into an unclean soul, nor, having entered
in, can it ever be subdued; even though all possible cleverness of speech ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily vi 1 cor ii.htm

The Attack on the Scriptures
... All this was quite true; but the Jews forgot that mere cleverness does not make
a man or woman good, and that the fear of God is the beginning of all true ...
/.../duff/the bible in its making/chapter vi the attack on.htm

John 0. 297222222 "To Whom?"
... an age of greedy pursuit of pleasure and impatience of restraint, an age of idolatry
of intellect, and extravagant admiration of so-called cleverness, an age ...
/.../chapter xi john 0 297222222 to.htm

The Romance of M. Renan. By Napoleon Roussel.
... We say this without any reference either to its style or to its scientific character;
but with respect to the marvelous cleverness with which its author colors ...
/.../the romance of m renan and the christ of the gospels/the romance of m renan.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

Thesaurus

Cleverness (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity;
adroitness. Multi-Version Concordance Cleverness (4 Occurrences). ...
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Cliff (11 Occurrences)

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Unscrupulous (2 Occurrences)
... babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with
every changing wind of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous ...
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Waves (43 Occurrences)
... babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with
every changing wind of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous ...
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Ingenuity (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of
a plan, or of mechanism. 3. (n.) Openness of heart; ingenuousness. ...
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Resemble (15 Occurrences)
... babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with
every changing wind of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous ...
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Device (17 Occurrences)
... babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with
every changing wind of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous ...
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Mariners (7 Occurrences)
... babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with
every changing wind of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous ...
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Mislead (13 Occurrences)
... babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with
every changing wind of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous ...
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Babes (18 Occurrences)
... babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with
every changing wind of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous ...
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Bible Concordance

Cleverness (4 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News-not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
(See NAS)

1 Corinthians 1:19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."
(See NAS RSV)

Ephesians 4:14 So we shall no longer be babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with every changing wind of doctrine according to men's cleverness and unscrupulous cunning, making use of every shifting device to mislead.
(WEY)

Isaiah 25:11 And if he puts out his hands, like a man stretching out his hands in swimming, the Lord will make low his pride, however expert his designs.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Cleverness

Related Terms

Cliff (11 Occurrences)

Unscrupulous (2 Occurrences)

Waves (43 Occurrences)

Ingenuity (1 Occurrence)

Resemble (15 Occurrences)

Device (17 Occurrences)

Mariners (7 Occurrences)

Mislead (13 Occurrences)

Babes (18 Occurrences)