תּוּשִׁיָּה
wisdom
also: sound knowledge, success, abiding success fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8454 appears — 12 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 6 verses
- Job 5:12 תּוּשִׁיָּֽה n c fs He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
- Job 6:13 וְ֝/תֻשִׁיָּ֗ה conj + n c fs Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
- Job 11:6 לְֽ/ת֫וּשִׁיָּ֥ה prep + n c fs That he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
- Job 12:16 וְ/תֽוּשִׁיָּ֑ה conj + n c fs With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
- Job 26:3 וְ֝/תוּשִׁיָּ֗ה conj + n c fs How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!
- Job 30:22 תּוּשִׁיָּֽה n c fs You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
Proverbs 4 verses
- Proverbs 2:7 תּוּשִׁיָּ֑ה n c fs He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
- Proverbs 3:21 תֻּ֝שִׁיָּ֗ה n c fs My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
- Proverbs 8:14 וְ/תוּשִׁיָּ֑ה conj + n c fs Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
- Proverbs 18:1 תּ֝וּשִׁיָּ֗ה n c fs An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, And defies all sound judgment.
Isaiah 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“wisdom” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun תושיה (tûwshîyâh). It clusters heavily in Job, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It turns up in 12 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. It first appears in Job 5:12. It also covers “sound knowledge”, “success”, and “abiding success”, alongside “wisdom” — see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8454 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 83%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sound wisdom 2×
- American Standard Version: Sound wisdom 2×, Wisdom 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sound judgment 3×, True wisdom 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sound wisdom 4×, Initiative 2×, Prudence 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8454 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8454 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8454 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8454 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- a. sound, efficient wisdom Is 28:29 (of י׳) הפליא עצה הגדיל תושׁיה; Pr 3:21 נְצֹר תּ׳ וּמְזִמָּה; 8:14 (Wisdom speaks) לִי עֵצָה ות׳; 18:1 לכל תּ׳ יִתְגַּלָּ֑ע; Jb 11:6 (of י׳: v. Di), 12:16 עִמּוֹ עֹז ות׳; 26:3 ות׳ לָרֹב הוֹדָ֑עְתָּ (‖ יָעַצְתָּ לְלֹא חָכְמָה). e.g. Isaiah 28:29
- b. of the effect of sound wisdom, abiding success (for the combination of meanings, cf. הִשְׂכִּיל to shew wisdom, and also to achieve success), Jb 5:12 ולא תעשׂינה ידיהם ת׳ do not achieve abiding success; 6:13 and abiding success (‖ עֶזְרָתִי) is driven from me; Pr 2:7 יִצְפֹּן לַיְשָׁרִים ת׳; Mi 6:9 ותושׁיה יראה שׁמך, i.e. (si vera l.) he that seeth (heedeth) thy name is well-advised (Ges§ 155, 2 b 3; Dav§ 29 e).—תֻּשִׁיָּה Jb 30:22, v. sub ii. שׁוא. e.g. Job 5:12
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. sound, efficient wisdom, abiding success (on der., v. supr.; according to Fl De proposes advancement, or mental aptitude that advances: for the form, cf. תּוּגָה and תַּאֲנִיָּה; Sta§ 262), a technical term of the WisdLt;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to substantiate
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תּוּשִׁיָּה
- stability; salvation; wisdom. Pirké d’R. El. ch. III מיד … בתורה ששמה ת׳ וכ׳ at once the Lord took counsel with the Law, whose name is tushiyyah, as to creating the world (ref. to Prov. VIII, 14). e.g. Proverbs 8:14
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H8454 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תּוּשִׁיָּֽה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 28:29 | 3 |
| וְ/תֽוּשִׁיָּ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 12:16 | 1 |
| וְ/תוּשִׁיָּ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 8:14 | 1 |
| וְ/תוּשִׁיָּ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Micah 6:9 | 1 |
| וְ֝/תֻשִׁיָּ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 6:13 | 1 |
| וְ֝/תוּשִׁיָּ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 26:3 | 1 |
| לְֽ/ת֫וּשִׁיָּ֥ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 11:6 | 1 |
| תּ֝וּשִׁיָּ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 18:1 | 1 |
| תֻּ֝שִׁיָּ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 3:21 | 1 |
| תּוּשִׁיָּ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 2:7 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
