'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'?"

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.

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

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

"How terrible it will be for those who are wise in their own opinion, and clever in their own reckoning!

He keeps bragging: "I've done it by the strength of my hand, and by my wisdom, because I'm so clever. I removed the boundaries of nations, and plundered their treasures; like a bull I brought down those who sat on thrones.

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.

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.