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'Intelligent' in the Bible

'And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt;

and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;

And one of the servants answereth and saith, 'Lo, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-Lehemite, skilful in playing, and a mighty virtuous man, and a man of battle, and intelligent in word, and a man of form, and Jehovah is with him.'

And Chenaniah, head of the Levites, is over the burden; he instructeth about the burden, for he is intelligent.

And their number, with their brethren -- taught in the song of Jehovah, all who are intelligent -- is two hundred, eighty and eight.

And they cause to fall lots -- charge over-against charge, as well the small as the great, the intelligent with the learner.

And Ezra the priest bringeth the law before the assembly, both of men and women, and every one intelligent to hear, on the first day of the seventh month,

and he readeth in it before the broad place that is before the water-gate, from the light till the middle of the day, over-against the men, and the women, and those intelligent, and the ears of all the people are unto the book of the law.

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and every one who hath been separated from the peoples of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every knowing intelligent one,

All of them are plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.

In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod is for the back of him who is lacking understanding.

In the heart of the intelligent wisdom doth rest. And in the midst of fools it is known.

The heart of the intelligent seeketh knowledge, And the mouth of fools enjoyeth folly.

The face of the intelligent is to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.

Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, He who is shutting his lips intelligent!

A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.

By the transgression of a land many are its heads. And by an intelligent man, Who knoweth right -- it is prolonged.

I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.

For he hath said, 'By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,

Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'

Concerning Edom: 'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Perished hath counsel from the intelligent? Vanished hath their wisdom?

who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God,

for it hath been written, 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;'

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