სიბრძნე

Multiple times in the book of proverbs, wisdom is referred to as female, using the pronouns 'she' and 'her'. 

Wisdom is described as being more valuable than any amount of money, and the key to real success, peace, stability, well-being. 

Wisdom is also very close to God. Proverbs says that:

The LORD founded the earth by wisdom
and established the heavens by understanding. 

As seen in this quote, wisdom and understanding are often paired in the book of Proverbs. 

Wisdom existed before anything else - from the beginning: 

From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

but there's something interesting. Wisdom played a role in the creation, which is described as follows:

[when God created the world] I was a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight day by day, rejoicing always in His presence. I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.

so, that breaks the rule about always calling wisdom female, because wisdom was a skilled craftsman. and when you look up the Hebrew lexicon, the word for craftsman is definitely singular and masculine. 

It's mysterious. Of course, wisdom isn't always referred to as female in the book of proverbs. Sometimes it's referred to as a quality or characteristic that we can possess, like knowledge and understanding. But every other time it's personified (which it is a lot), besides this verse, it is referred to as female. 

What it tells me is that wisdom is not limited in the way that mortal human beings are. It is personified as female for a reason, but it's figurative, not literal. Both males and females can be wise. This is all obvious. Something else that may be a bit more controversial but is probably just as obvious is that God is neither male nor female. Even though God is often referred to using the words 'He, His, Him', and that is done for a reason (just like wisdom is referred to as female for a reason), God is not male. God is beyond and above male and female /// He created both man and woman in his image....so women are equally created in God's image, which means that essential feminine characteristics are a reflection of God's characteristics just as essential masculine characteristics are, and essential human characteristics are. 

There are also passages in the Bible that describe God in female terms. A couple of examples:

Deuteronomy 32:18 - 
You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Isaiah 66:13 - 

As a mother comforts her child,
so will I comfort you;
and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.