WISDOM, in Latin, Sapientia; in Greek, Sophia; in Hebrew, Chachemah.1 The Jews gives a greater Latitude to the Words Wise, and Wisdom, than either the Greeks or Latins. With them Wisdom signifies, 1. Undetstanding, or the Knowledge of things supernatural and divine. It is found in this Sense in the Psalms, and in the other Books treating of Wisdom. ‘Twas properly this Wisdom that Solomon intreated of God with so much Earnestness, and which God granted him with so much Liberality.
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Sapientia, Σοφία, חכמהChachma. ↩