The Hebrew noun
chokma (
khok·mä), also sometimes transliterated
hokhmah, is the
Hebrew word for "
wisdom". The word occurs 149 times in the
Masoretic text of the
Hebrew Bible. The Talmud (
Shabbat 31a) describes knowledge of the Talmudic order of
Kodshim as a high level of wisdom,
chokhmah.