'Clever' in the Bible

Now the Shining One was more clever than any animal of the field that the LORD God had made. He asked the woman, "Did God actually say, "You are not to eat from any tree of the garden'?"

they did something clever. They collected some provisions and put worn-out sacks on their donkeys, along with worn-out wineskins that were ripped and patched.

Go and again make sure, find out and investigate where he is and who has seen him there, for people tell me that he's very clever.

So Joab sent someone to Tekoa to bring a clever woman from there. He told her, “Pretend to be in mourning: dress in mourning clothes and don’t put on any oil. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.

For they do not speak peace; they devise clever lies against the peaceful people of the land.

They devise clever schemes against Your people;they conspire against Your treasured ones.

in understanding proverbs, clever sayings, words of the wise, and their riddles.

A clever person conceals knowledge, but the heart of a fool announces folly.

Anyone who is clever will act with intelligence, but the fool will display folly.

The wisdom of the clever is understanding his ways, but the folly of fools is deceit.

The simple will believe every word, but the clever will consider his step.

The simple are adorned [with] folly, but the clever are crowned with knowledge.

The clever sees danger and hides, but the simple go on and suffer.

[When] the clever sees danger, he hides; the simple go on [and] suffer.

the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the clever among artificers, and the one versed in enchantments.

Woe to those who are wise in their own opinionand clever in their own sight.

For he said:I have done this by my own strengthand wisdom, for I am clever.I abolished the borders of nationsand plundered their treasures;like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants.

At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth [I openly and joyfully acknowledge Your great wisdom], that You have hidden these things [these spiritual truths] from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants [to new believers, to those seeking God’s will and purpose].

The master praised the dishonest servant manager for being so clever, because worldly people are more clever than enlightened people in dealing with their own.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize—not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.

For it is written,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”

My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever, wise words, but by a display of the Spirit's power,

Granting that I have not been a burden to you, was I a clever schemer who trapped you by some trick?

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed like waves and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, or by clever strategies that would lead us astray.

When we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we did not follow any clever myths. Rather, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.