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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
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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 -

“Why are we regarded H2803 as beasts,

As dense in your eyes?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:11 -

“He has also kindled His anger against me

And counted H2803 me as His adversary.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 -

“Those who sojourn in my house and my maidservants count H2803 me a stranger.

I am a foreigner in their sight.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:10 -

‘Behold, He finds reasons for opposition against me;

He counts H2803 me as His enemy.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:2 -

“Do you think H2803 this is according to justice?

Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:27 -

“It regards H2803 iron as straw,

Bronze as rotten wood.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:29 -

“Clubs are regarded H2803 as stubble;

It laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32 -

“Behind it, it makes a wake to shine;

One would think H2803 the deep to be gray-haired.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:2 -

In his lofty pride the wicked [fn]hotly pursues the afflicted;

[fn]Let them be caught in the thoughts which they have devised H2803.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:11 -

Though they [fn]intended evil against You

And devised H2803 a scheme,

They will not succeed.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:2 -

How blessed is the man whose iniquity Yahweh will not take H2803 into H2803 account H2803,

And in whose spirit there is no deceit!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:4 -

Let those be ashamed and dishonored who seek my [fn]life;

Let those who devise H2803 evil against me be turned back and humiliated.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:20 -

For they do not speak peace,

But they devise H2803 deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 -

He devises H2803 wickedness upon his bed;

He sets himself on a path that is not good;

He does not despise evil.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:17 -

As for me, I am afflicted and needy,

[fn]May the Lord think H2803 of me.

You are my help and the One who rescues me;

Do not delay, O my God.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:7 -

All who hate me whisper together against me;

Against me, they devise H2803 for me [fn]calamity, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:22 -

But for Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are counted H2803 as sheep for the slaughter.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:2 -

Your tongue devises H2803 destruction,

Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 -

When I gave H2803 thought H2803 to know this,

It was trouble in my sight

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:5 -

I give H2803 thought H2803 to the days of old,

The years of long ago.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 -

I am counted H2803 among those who go down to the pit;

I am like a man without strength,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:31 -

And it was counted H2803 to him for righteousness,

From generation to generation forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:59 -

I thought H2803 upon my ways

And I turned my feet to Your testimonies.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:2 -

Who think H2803 up evil things in their hearts;

They continually stir up wars.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:4 -

Keep me, O Yahweh, from the hands of the wicked;

Guard me from violent men

Who [fn]give H2803 thought H2803 to [fn]trip up my steps.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:3 -

O Yahweh, what is man, that You know him?

Or the son of man, that You think H2803 of him?

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:9 -

The heart of man [fn]plans H2803 his way,

But Yahweh [fn]directs his steps.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:30 -

He who winks his eyes does so to devise H2803 perverse things;

He who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:28 -

Even an ignorant fool, when he keeps silent, is considered H2803 wise;

When he closes his lips, he is considered understanding.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:8 -

One who deliberately thinks H2803 to do evil,

Men will call a [fn]schemer.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:14 -

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,

It will be counted H2803 as a curse to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:22 -

[fn]Stop regarding [fn]man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;

For [fn]why should he be esteemed H2803?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:28 -

[fn]Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;

The hoofs of its horses [fn]seem H2803 like flint and its chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 -

But it does not intend to act in this way,

And it does not think H2803 in its heart in this way,

Rather, what is in its heart is to destroy

And to cut off [fn]many nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:17 -

Behold, I am going to awaken the Medes against them,

Who will not think H2803 about silver or take pleasure in gold.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 -

You turn things around!

Shall the potter be considered H2803 [fn]as equal with the clay,

That what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”;

Or what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 -

Is it not yet just a little while

[fn]Before Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful orchard,

And the fruitful orchard will be counted H2803 as a forest?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:15 -

Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,

And the wilderness becomes a fruitful orchard,

And the fruitful orchard is counted H2803 as a forest.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 -

The highways are desolate, [fn]the traveler has ceased;

He has broken the covenant, he has rejected the cities;

He has no regard H2803 for man.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 -

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,

And are counted H2803 as a speck of dust on the scales;

Behold, He lifts up the coastlands like fine dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 -

All the nations are as nothing before Him;

They are counted H2803 by Him as non-existent and utterly formless.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:3 -

He was despised and forsaken of men,

A man of [fn]sorrows and acquainted with [fn]grief;

And like one from whom men hide their face

He was despised, and we did not esteem H2803 Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:4 -

Surely our [fn]griefs He Himself [fn]bore,

And our [fn]sorrows He [fn]carried;

Yet we ourselves esteemed H2803 Him stricken,

[fn]Smitten of God, and afflicted.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 -

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;

And I did not know that they had devised H2803 thoughts against me, saying,

“Let us make the tree with its [fn]fruit a ruin,

And let us cut him off from the land of the living,

That his name be remembered no more.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:8 - but if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will [fn]relent concerning the calamity I planned H2803 to do against it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - “So now then, speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am forming calamity against you and devising H2803 a plan against you. Oh turn back, each of you from his evil way, and do good in your ways and your deeds.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 -

Then they said, “Come and let us devise H2803 plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to perish from the priest, nor counsel to the wise man, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - who intend H2803 to make My people forget My name by their dreams which they recount to one another, just as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - ‘Perhaps they will listen and everyone will turn from his evil way, that I may [fn]relent of the evil which I am devising H2803 to [fn]bring against them because of the evil of their deeds.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:11 - ‘For I know the plans that I [fn]have H2803 for you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘plans for peace and not for calamity, to give you a future and a hope.

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