Tûwshîyâh — H8454

Definition

feminine noun

support or (by implication) ability, i.e. (direct) help, (in purpose) an undertaking, (intellectual) understanding

1. wisdom, sound knowledge, success, sound or efficient wisdom, abiding success
1. sound or efficient wisdom
2. abiding success (of the effect of sound wisdom)

Usually translated as

wisdom, enterprise, is, working, that which, substance

Origin

or tushîyâh; from an unused root probably meaning to substantiate

Greek equivalents

• alēthḗs (G227)
• aspháleia (G803)
• boḗtheia (G996)
• boulḗ (G1012)
• epakolouthéō (G1872)
• ischýs (G2479)
• kairós (G2540)
• sōtēría (G4991)

Occurrences

Tûwshîyâh occurs 11 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (5), Proverbs (4), Isaiah (1), Micah (1)

• Job 5:12 — He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise (תּוּשִׁיָּֽה).
• Job 6:13 — Is not my help in me? and is wisdom (וְ֝תֻשִׁיָּ֗ה) driven quite from me?
• Job 11:6 — And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is (לְֽת֫וּשִׁיָּ֥ה)! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
• Job 12:16 — With him is strength and wisdom (וְתֽוּשִׁיָּ֑ה): the deceived and the deceiver are his.
• Job 26:3 — How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing (וְ֝תוּשִׁיָּ֗ה) as it is?
• Proverbs 2:7 — He layeth up sound wisdom (תּוּשִׁיָּ֑ה) for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
• Proverbs 3:21 — My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom (תֻּ֝שִׁיָּ֗ה) and discretion:
• Proverbs 8:14 — Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom (וְתוּשִׁיָּ֑ה): I am understanding; I have strength.
• Proverbs 18:1 — Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom (תּ֝וּשִׁיָּ֗ה).
• Isaiah 28:29 — This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working (תּוּשִׁיָּֽה).
• Micah 6:9 — The LORD’s voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom (וְתוּשִׁיָּ֖ה) shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.