Psalms 112:5
A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
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Discretion
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Jeremiah 10:12
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
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6 occurrences in 6 verses.
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מְזִמָּה
mᵉzimmâh · mez-im-maw'
4 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity)
Strong's KJV usage: (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 1:4Strong's last: Proverbs 5:2
Open full H4209 profile →מִשְׁפָּט
mishpâṭ · mish-pawt'
2 times translated as this KJV form419 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, ceremony, charge, × crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, × worthy, wrong.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 112:5Strong's last: Isaiah 28:26
Open full H4941 profile →טַעַם
ṭaʻam · tah'-am
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
Strong's KJV usage: advice, behaviour, decree, discretion, judgment, reason, taste, understanding.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 11:22Strong's last: Proverbs 11:22
Open full H2940 profile →שֶׂכֶל
sekel · seh'-kel
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
intelligence; by implication, success
Strong's KJV usage: discretion, knowledge, policy, prudence, sense, understanding, wisdom, wise.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 19:11Strong's last: Proverbs 19:11
Open full H7922 profile →תָּבוּן
tâbûwn · taw-boon'
1 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice
Strong's KJV usage: discretion, reason, skilfulness, understanding, wisdom.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 10:12Strong's last: Jeremiah 10:12
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H4941
A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
H4209
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
H4209
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
H4209
My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
H4209
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
H2940
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
H7922
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
H4941
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
H8394
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
English meaning and historical usage.
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discretion
DISCRETION, noun [L, a separating. See Discreet.]
1. Prudence, or knowledge and prudence; that discernment which enables a person to judge critically of what is correct and proper, united with caution; nice discernment and judgment, directed by circumspection, and primarily regarding ones own conduct.
A good man--will guide his affairs with discretion Psalms 112:5.
My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion Proverbs 3:21.
2. Liberty or power of acting without other control than ones own judgment; as, the management of affairs was left to the discretion of the prince; he is left to his own discretion Hence,
To surrender at discretion is to surrender without stipulation or terms, and commit ones self entirely to the power of the conqueror.
3. Disjunction; separation. [Not much used.]
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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