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Lexicon :: Strong's H2803 - ḥāšaḇ

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חָשַׁב
Transliteration
ḥāšaḇ
Pronunciation
khaw-shav'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 767

Strong’s Definitions

חָשַׁב châshab, khaw-shab'; a primitive root; properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute:—(make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 124x

The KJV translates Strong's H2803 in the following manner: count (23x), devise (22x), think (18x), imagine (9x), cunning (8x), reckon (7x), purpose (6x), esteem (6x), account (5x), impute (4x), forecast (2x), regard (2x), workman (2x), conceived (1x), miscellaneous (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 124x
The KJV translates Strong's H2803 in the following manner: count (23x), devise (22x), think (18x), imagine (9x), cunning (8x), reckon (7x), purpose (6x), esteem (6x), account (5x), impute (4x), forecast (2x), regard (2x), workman (2x), conceived (1x), miscellaneous (9x).

  1. to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count

    1. (Qal)

      1. to think, account

      2. to plan, devise, mean

      3. to charge, impute, reckon

      4. to esteem, value, regard

      5. to invent

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be accounted, be thought, be esteemed

      2. to be computed, be reckoned

      3. to be imputed

    3. (Piel)

      1. to think upon, consider, be mindful of

      2. to think to do, devise, plan

      3. to count, reckon

    4. (Hithpael) to be considered

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָשַׁב châshab, khaw-shab'; a primitive root; properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute:—(make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
STRONGS H2803: Abbreviations
† חָשַׁב verb think, account (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חֲשַׁב, bdb036203; Arabic bdb036204; Ethiopic bdb036205 id.; Phoenician noun חשב meaning dubious see CISi. 86) —
Qal Perfect ח׳ Isaiah 33:8 + 9 times; חָשַׁבְתָּה 2 Samuel 14:13 etc.; Imperfect יַחְשֹׁב Isaiah 10:7 + 4 times; יַחֲשָׁבֿ 2 Samuel 19:20; Psalm 40:18 [Psalm 40:17]; suffix יַחְשְׁבֵנִי Job 19:11; Job 33:10; plural יַחְשְׁבוּ Psalm 41:8; Daniel 11:25; יַחְשֹׁ֑בוּ Isaiah 13:17; יַחֲשֹׁבוּן Psalm 35:20; נַחְשְׁבָה Jeremiah 18:18, etc. + 9 times Imperfect; Infinitive construct לַחְשֹׁב Exodus 31:4 + 3 times; Participle חשֵׁב Exodus 26:1 + 15 times, חוֺשֵׁב 2 Chronicles 26:15; חשְׁבִים Nehemiah 6:2 + 3 times, חשְׁבֵי Micah 2:1 + 3 times; — I. of man:
1. think, account לבבו לא כן יחשׁב Isaiah 10:7 not so thinketh his mind; חשׁבי שׁמוֺ Malachi 3:16 those thinking of his name; followed by 2 accusatives חשׁבנהו נגוע Isaiah 53:4 we thought him stricken; elsewhere with accusative + לְ Genesis 38:15 (J), 1 Samuel 1:13; Job 19:15; Job 35:2; Job 41:24; so, figurative, of crocodile Job 41:19 he reckoneth iron as straw.
2. devise, plan, mean, with accusative מַחֲשֶׁבֶת רָעָה Ezekiel 38:10, רעה Psalm 35:4; Psalm 140:3; Zechariah 7:10; Zechariah 8:17, תַּהְפֻּכ֑וֹת Proverbs 16:30, מְזִמּוֺת Psalm 10:2; Psalm 21:12, דִּבְרֵי מִרְמוֺת Psalm 35:20, אָוֶן Micah 2:1; Ezekiel 11:2; Psalm 36:5, הַוּוֺת Psalm 52:4; רע(ה) על ח׳ devise evil against Genesis 50:20 (E), Jeremiah 48:2; Nahum 1:11, רעה לְ ח׳ Psalm 41:8, מַחֲשֶׁבֶת על ח׳ Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 18:18; Jeremiah 49:30; Daniel 11:25; Esther 8:3; Esther 9:25, כזאת על ח׳ 2 Samuel 14:13; with infinitive 1 Samuel 18:25; Jeremiah 18:8; Jeremiah 23:27; Job 6:26; Nehemiah 6:2, 6; Esther 9:24; Psalm 140:5; with לבלתי + Imperfect 2 Samuel 14:14 (where, however, Ew reads חוֺבֵ for וחשׁב compare We Dr; in this case לבלתי carries on לֹא יִשָּׂא).
3. charge, impute עון ל׳ ח׳, 2 Samuel 19:20 impute iniquity to.
4. esteem, value, regard, silver Isaiah 13:17, a man Isaiah 33:8, the servant of י׳ Isaiah 53:3.
5. invent ingenious and artistic things, להם כלי שׁיר ח׳ Amos 6:5 invent for themselves instruments of music; (כל) מחשׁבת ח׳ invent cunning work (of artistic devices in construction of tabernacle) Exodus 31:4; Exodus 35:32, 35 (all P), so 2 Chronicles 2:13; מַעֲשֵׂה חשֵׁב work of the cunning (ingenious, inventive) workman (of artistic devices in weaving; see especially VB and Di) Exodus 26:1, 31; Exodus 28:6, 15; Exodus 36:8, 35; Exodus 39:3, 8 (all P); מַחֲשֶׁבֶת חוֺשֵׁב 2 Chronicles 26:15 inventions of inventive men (of engines of war); חָרָשׁ וְחשֵׁב craftsman and inventive workman (in construction of tabernacle, see above) Exodus 35:35; Exodus 38:23 (P).
II. of God:
1. think, with accusative of persson + לְ indirect object account one לאויב, for an enemy Job 13:24; Job 33:10; לוֺ כצריו ח׳ Job 19:11 he accounted me unto him as his adversaries.
2. devise, plan, mean, with accusative + ל indirect object לטבה for good Genesis 50:20 (E); with ל person לִי devise for me Psalm 40:18; accusative of thing + עַל, devise something against a person Micah 2:3; Jeremiah 18:11; towards one Jeremiah 29:11, with אל against Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 50:45; followed by infinitive Jeremiah 26:3; Jeremiah 36:3; Lamentations 2:8.
3. impute, reckon, with accusative of thing + ל person, the habit of believing in י׳ he reckoned to Abram as righteousness Genesis 15:6 (J E; compare Niph. 3); not impute iniquity to one Psalm 32:2.
Niph.. Perfect נֶחְשַׁב Numbers 18:27, 30, נֶחְשַׁבְתִּי Psalm 88:5 etc. + 10 times Perfect; Imperfect יֵחָשֵׁב Leviticus 7:18 + 7 times, etc., + 6 times Imperfect; Participle נֶחְשָׁב Isaiah 2:22; 1 Kings 10:21; 2 Chronicles 9:20: —
1. be accounted, thought, esteemed, with כְּ as Hosea 8:12; Isaiah 5:28; Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 40:15; Psalm 44:23; Job 18:3; Job 41:21; with לְ Isaiah 29:17 = Isaiah 32:15, Lamentations 4:2; עִם with, among Psalm 88:5, בַּמֶּה Isaiah 2:22 at what (value) ? (see probably interpolated; omitted by Greek Version of the LXX); with accusative Deuteronomy 2:11, 20; Proverbs 17:28; Nehemiah 13:13; נָכְרִיּוֺת נֶחְשַׁבְנוּ לוֺ Genesis 31:13 (E; Greek Version of the LXX Sam כְּנֶח׳) Isaiah 40:17.
2. be computed, reckoned, with לְ Joshua 13:3 (D), עַל Leviticus 25:31 (P), 2 Samuel 4:2: absolute כסף was not counted (so plentiful was it) 1 Kings 10:21 2 Chronicles 9:20; 2 Kings 22:7.
3. be imputed to any one, with לְ Leviticus 7:18; Numbers 18:27, 30 (all P), Leviticus 17:4 (H) Proverbs 27:14; the interposition of Phinehas לוֺ לצדקה נח׳ Psalm 106:31 was imputed to him for righteousness (compare Qal II 3).
Pi. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular חִשַּׁב Leviticus 25:27 + 4 times; feminine חִשְּׁבָה Jonah 1:4; 1st person singular חִשַּׁבְתִּי Psalm 77:6; Psalm 119:59; Imperfect יְחַשֵּׁב Proverbs 16:9; Daniel 11:24, תְּחַשְּׁבוּן Nahum 1:9, etc., + 4 times Imperfect; Participle מְחַשֵּׁב Proverbs 24:8: —
1. think upon, consider, be mindful of, with accusative Psalm 77:6; Psalm 119:59, (מה) בֶּןאֱֿנוֺשׁ וַתְּחַשְּׁבֵהוּ Psalm 144:3 what (is) man's son, and thou thinkest upon him (|| תֵּדָעֵהוּ).
2. think to do, devise, plan, with accusative Proverbs 16:9, אֶל of persons against whom Hosea 7:15; Nahum 1:9, עַל Daniel 11:24; with infinitive Psalm 73:16; Proverbs 24:8; so of inanimate object הָאֳנִיָּה חִשְּׁבָה לְהִשָּׁבֵר Jonah 1:4 the ship was about to (minded to) be broken up.
3. count, reckon, the years since a sale of land Leviticus 25:27 (H); with לְ person Leviticus 25:52 (H), Leviticus 27:18, 23 (P); with עִם Leviticus 25:50 (P); with אֶת 2 Kings 12:16.
Hithp. Imperfect בַּגּוֺיִם לֹא יִתְחַשָּׁ֑ב Numbers 23:9 (JE) among the nations it shall not reckon itself.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H2804.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:6; 31:13; 38:15; 50:20; 50:20

Exodus

26:1; 26:1; 26:31; 28:6; 28:15; 31:4; 31:4; 35:32; 35:35; 35:35; 36:8; 36:35; 38:23; 39:3; 39:8

Leviticus

7:18; 7:18; 17:4; 25:27; 25:27; 25:31; 25:50; 25:52; 27:18; 27:23

Numbers

18:27; 18:27; 18:30; 18:30; 23:9

Deuteronomy

2:11; 2:20

Joshua

13:3

1 Samuel

1:13; 18:25

2 Samuel

4:2; 14:13; 14:13; 14:14; 19:20; 19:20

1 Kings

10:21; 10:21

2 Kings

12:16; 22:7

2 Chronicles

2:13; 9:20; 9:20; 26:15; 26:15

Nehemiah

6:2; 6:2; 6:6; 13:13

Esther

8:3; 9:24; 9:25

Job

6:26; 13:24; 18:3; 19:11; 19:11; 19:15; 33:10; 33:10; 35:2; 41:19; 41:21; 41:24

Psalms

10:2; 21:12; 32:2; 35:4; 35:20; 35:20; 36:5; 40:17; 41:8; 41:8; 44:23; 52:4; 73:16; 77:6; 77:6; 88:5; 88:5; 106:31; 119:59; 119:59; 140:3; 140:5; 144:3

Proverbs

16:9; 16:9; 16:30; 17:28; 24:8; 24:8; 27:14

Isaiah

2:22; 2:22; 5:28; 10:7; 10:7; 13:17; 13:17; 29:16; 29:17; 32:15; 33:8; 33:8; 40:15; 40:17; 53:3; 53:4

Jeremiah

11:19; 18:8; 18:11; 18:18; 18:18; 23:27; 26:3; 29:11; 36:3; 48:2; 49:20; 49:30; 50:45

Lamentations

2:8; 4:2

Ezekiel

11:2; 38:10

Daniel

11:24; 11:24; 11:25; 11:25

Hosea

7:15; 8:12

Amos

6:5

Jonah

1:4; 1:4

Micah

2:1; 2:1; 2:3

Nahum

1:9; 1:9; 1:11

Zechariah

7:10; 8:17

Malachi

3:16

H2803

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Strong's Number H2803 matches the Hebrew חָשַׁב (ḥāšaḇ),
which occurs 124 times in 122 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Job 18:3–Jer 29:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 - Why are we counted as cattle?
Why are we stupid in your sight?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:11 - He has kindled his wrath against me
and counts me as his adversary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:10 - Behold, he finds occasions against me,
he counts me as his enemy,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:2 - “Do you think this to be just?
Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:27 - He counts iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:29 - Clubs are counted as stubble;
he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32 - Behind him he leaves a shining wake;
one would think the deep to be white-haired.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:2 - In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;
let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:11 - Though they plan evil against you,
though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:2 - Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:4 - Let them be put to shame and dishonor
who seek after my life!
Let them be turned back and disappointed
who devise evil against me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:20 - For they do not speak peace,
but against those who are quiet in the land
they devise words of deceit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - He plots trouble while on his bed;
he sets himself in a way that is not good;
he does not reject evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:17 - As for me, I am poor and needy,
but the Lord takes thought for me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
do not delay, O my God!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:7 - All who hate me whisper together about me;
they imagine the worst for me.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:22 - Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:2 - Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 - But when I thought how to understand this,
it seemed to me a wearisome task,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:5 - I consider the days of old,
the years long ago.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 - I am counted among those who go down to the pit;
I am a man who has no strength,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:31 - And that was counted to him as righteousness
from generation to generation forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:59 - When I think on my ways,
I turn my feet to your testimonies;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:2 - who plan evil things in their heart
and stir up wars continually.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:4 - Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;
preserve me from violent men,
who have planned to trip up my feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:3 - O LORD, what is man that you regard him,
or the son of man that you think of him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:9 - The heart of man plans his way,
but the LORD establishes his steps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:30 - Whoever winks his eyes plans[fn] dishonest things;
he who purses his lips brings evil to pass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:28 - Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:8 - Whoever plans to do evil
will be called a schemer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:14 - Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice,
rising early in the morning,
will be counted as cursing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:22 - Stop regarding man
in whose nostrils is breath,
for of what account is he?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:28 - their arrows are sharp,
all their bows bent,
their horses’ hoofs seem like flint,
and their wheels like the whirlwind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 - But he does not so intend,
and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:17 - Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 - Is it not yet a very little while
until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:15 - until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste;
the traveler ceases.
Covenants are broken;
cities[fn] are despised;
there is no regard for man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 - Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
and are accounted as the dust on the scales;
behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 - All the nations are as nothing before him,
they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:3 - He was despised and rejected[fn] by men,
a man of sorrows[fn] and acquainted with[fn] grief;[fn]
and as one from whom men hide their faces[fn]
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:4 - Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - But I was like a gentle lamb
led to the slaughter.
I did not know it was against me
they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name be remembered no more.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:8 - and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 - Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare[fn] and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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