Cunning
Cunning
CUNNING.As a subst. cunning in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] means either skill or knowledge; as an adj. either skilful or wise (we cannot say knowing, for that adj. has also degenerated). It is the pres. participle of the Anglo-Sax. verb cunnan, which meant both to know and to be able. In the Preface to the Wyclifite version of 1388 we read of the Holy Spyrit, author of all wisdom and cunnynge and truth.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Cunning
kuning (, hakham, , hashabh): In Bible-English cunning means always wise or skilful; the word does not occur in the bad sense, and it is found in the Old Testament only. The chief Hebrew words are hakham, wise, skilful (2Ch 2:7 the King James Version a man cunning to work in gold; 2Ch 2:13; Isa 3:3 the King James Version, etc.); hashabh, to think, devise, desire (Exo 26:1, Exo 26:31; Exo 28:6, Exo 28:15 the King James Version, etc.). We have also daath, knowledge (1Ki 7:14 the King James Version); bn, to be intelligent (1Ch 25:7 the King James Version); mahasbebheth, thought, device, design (Exo 31:4; Exo 35:33, Exo 35:15 the King James Version); ‘aman, artificer (Son 7:1 the King James Version); yadha, to know, once translated cunning (Dan 1:4 the King James Version).
For cunning the American Standard Revised Version gives skilful (Exo 31:4, etc.; Isa 3:3 expert); for cunning work the work of the skilful workman (Exo 26:1, Exo 26:31, etc., the English Revised Version cunning workman); for curious, skilfully woven, the English Revised Version cunningly woven (Exo 28:8, etc.).