Ideas across traditions · wisdom · Hebrew & Jewish

wisdom

A common word: it appears in 48% of all works on the maps, so its reach across traditions is a fact about English, not about the idea. The works are listed for completeness; the analogues below are the judged connections.

Also under: חכמה · σοφία · “sapientia” · “sophia” · “weisheit” · “sagesse” · “chokhmah” · “sapienza” · “chochmah” · “sapience” · “weißheit” · “ܚܟܡܬܐ” · “chokmah” · “իմաստութիւն” · “hochma”

363works in other traditions, with a cited page
19works in Hebrew & Jewish, its home tradition on the maps
676further works where only a vocabulary list or keyword names it; not shown
0judged analogues in other traditions (a different word for a neighbouring idea)

In other traditions

Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.

Greekfrom 750 BCE · 28 works

and 23 more works in Greek; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Indianfrom 400 BCE · 7 works

and 2 more works in Indian; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Chinesefrom 320 BCE · 5 works

Hellenistic & Late Antiquefrom 300 BCE · 40 works

and 35 more works in Hellenistic & Late Antique; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Buddhistfrom 300 BCE · 8 works

and 3 more works in Buddhist; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Hermetic & Gnosticfrom 100 BCE · 21 works

and 16 more works in Hermetic & Gnostic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Romanfrom 55 BCE · 24 works

and 19 more works in Roman; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Early Christian & Monasticfrom 200 CE · 14 works

and 9 more works in Early Christian & Monastic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Syriac & Armenianfrom 345 CE · 5 works

Kabbalistic & Hasidicfrom 400 CE · 33 works

and 28 more works in Kabbalistic & Hasidic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Medieval Latinfrom 630 CE · 55 works

and 50 more works in Medieval Latin; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Byzantine & Orthodoxfrom 630 CE · 5 works

Arabicfrom 632 CE · 16 works

and 11 more works in Arabic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Tibetanfrom 1050 · 8 works

and 3 more works in Tibetan; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Persianfrom 1186 · 4 works

Renaissance & Early Modern Europefrom 1468 · 49 works

and 44 more works in Renaissance & Early Modern Europe; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Modern Europeanfrom 1657 · 19 works

and 14 more works in Modern European; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Theosophical & Modern Esotericfrom 1749 · 19 works

and 14 more works in Theosophical & Modern Esoteric; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Norse & Celticfrom 1826 · 1 work

Japanesefrom 1906 · 2 works

At home in Hebrew & Jewish

and 11 more.

Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.