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# כִּשְׁרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3788

**skill** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

skill [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3788/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּשְׁרוֹן: skill, success [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3788/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] skill, success;— skill, בְּחָכְמָה וּבְדַעַת וּבְכִשְׁר֑וֹן Ec 2:21; cstr. כָּל־כִּשְׁרוֹן הַמַּעֲשֶׂה 4:4 all skill of work = skilful work. success, profit, וּמַה־כִּשְׁרוֹן לִבְעָלֶיהָ Ec 5:10 and what profit have the owners of it?

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: profit (1); skill (1); the skill (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 5:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.5.10/#tree)

בִּרְבוֹת֙ הַטּוֹבָ֔ה רַבּ֖וּ אוֹכְלֶ֑יהָ וּמַה־כִּשְׁרוֹן֙ לִבְעָלֶ֔יהָ כִּ֖י אִם־רְא֥וּת עֵינָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* when increases the good they.increase \[those who\].consume.it and what? profit \[belongs\].to owner(s) its (dm) (if) the.sight his.eyes his

*JPS 1917:* When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, saving the beholding of them with his eyes?

[Ecclesiastes 4:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.4/#tree)

וְרָאִ֨יתִֽי אֲנִ֜י אֶת־כָּל־עָמָ֗ל וְאֵת֙ כָּל־כִּשְׁר֣וֹן הַֽמַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה כִּ֛י הִ֥יא קִנְאַת־אִ֖ישׁ מֵרֵעֵ֑הוּ גַּם־זֶ֥ה הֶ֖בֶל וּרְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* and I.considered I (et) all \[the\].toil and (et) all the.skill of the.work (cmp) it \[is\].envy of.everyone from neighbor his also this \[is\].futility and striving of.wind

*JPS 1917:* Again, I considered all labour and all excelling in work, that it is a man's rivalry with his neighbour. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3788.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3788/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).