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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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.
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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