Knowing; skillful; experienced; well-instructed. It is applied to all kinds of knowledge, but generally and appropriately, to the skill and dexterity of rtificers, or the knowledge acquired by experience. Esau was a cunning hunter. Genesis 25:27. I will take away the cunning artificer. Isaiah 3:3. A cunning workman. Exodus 38:23.

Wrought with skill; curious; ingenious. With cherubs of cunning work shalt thou make them. Exodus 26:1.&

Artful; shrewd; sly; crafty; astute; designing; as a cunning fellow. They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. In this sense, the purpose or final end of the person may not be illaudalbe; but cunning implies the use of artifice to accomplish the purpose, rather than open, candid, or direct means. Hence,

Deceitful; trickish; employing stratagems for a bad purpose.

Assumed with subtilty; artful. Accounting his integrity to be but a cunning face of falsehood.

Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity. Let my right hand forget her cunning. Psalm 137:5.

Art; artifice; artfulness; craft; shrewdness; the faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose. Hence in a bad sense, deceitfulness or deceit; fraudulent skill or dexterity. Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.