Job 5:12
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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Crafty
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2 Corinthians 12:16
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
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עָרוּם
ʻârûwm · aw-room'
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
cunning (usually in a bad sense)
Strong's KJV usage: crafty, prudent, subtil.
Strong's first: Job 5:12Strong's last: Job 15:5
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panoûrgos · pan-oor'-gos
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
all-working, i.e. adroit (shrewd)
Strong's KJV usage: :--crafty.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 12:16Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 12:16
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ʻâram · aw-ram'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be (or make) bare; but used only in the derivative sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) to be cunning (usually in a bad sense)
Strong's KJV usage: × very, beware, take crafty (counsel), be prudent, deal subtilly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 83:3Strong's last: Psalms 83:3
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H6175
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
H6175
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
H6191
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
G3835
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
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crafty
CRAFTY, adjective
1. Cunning; artful; skillful in devising and pursuing a scheme, by deceiving others, or by taking advantage of their ignorance; wily; sly; fraudulent.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty Job 5:12.
2. Artful; cunning; in a good sense, or in a laudable pursuit.
Being crafty I caught you with guile. 2 Corinthians 12:16.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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