חַכִּיםchakkîym
wise man, elsewhere of the class possessed of occult learning in Babylonia (Daniel 2:21; Daniel 2:27; Daniel 2:13; Daniel 5:15; Daniel 2:12)
Pronunciation: khak-keem' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2445
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Daniel 2:12 The king was furious when he heard this, and he ordered that all the wise men of Babylon be executed.
- Daniel 2:13 And because of the king’s decree, men were sent to find and kill Daniel and his friends.
- Daniel 2:14 When Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, came to kill them, Daniel handled the situation with wisdom and discretion.
- Daniel 2:18 He urged them to ask the God of heaven to show them his mercy by telling them the secret, so they would not be executed along with the other wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:21 He controls the course of world events; he removes kings and sets up other kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the scholars.
- Daniel 2:24 Then Daniel went in to see Arioch, whom the king had ordered to execute the wise men of Babylon. Daniel said to him, “Don’t kill the wise men. Take me to the king, and I will tell him the meaning of his dream.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).