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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.
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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 - Wherefore are we counted H2803 as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:11 - He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth H2803 me unto him as one of his enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count H2803 me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:10 - Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth H2803 me for his enemy,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:2 - Thinkest H2803 thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:27 - He esteemeth H2803 iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:29 - Darts are counted H2803 as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32 - He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think H2803 the deep to be hoary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:2 - The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. H2803

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:11 - For they intended evil against thee: they imagined H2803 a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:2 - Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth H2803 not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:4 - Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise H2803 my hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:20 - For they speak not peace: but they devise H2803 deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - He deviseth H2803 mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:17 - But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh H2803 upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:7 - All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise H2803 my hurt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:22 - Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted H2803 as sheep for the slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:2 - Thy tongue deviseth H2803 mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 - When I thought H2803 to know this, it was too painful for me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:5 - I have considered H2803 the days of old, the years of ancient times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 - I am counted H2803 with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:31 - And that was counted H2803 unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:59

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:59 - I thought H2803 on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:2 - Which imagine H2803 mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:4 - Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed H2803 to overthrow my goings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:3 - LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account H2803 of him!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:9 - A man's heart deviseth H2803 his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:30 - He shutteth his eyes to devise H2803 froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:28 - Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted H2803 wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:8 - He that deviseth H2803 to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:14 - He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted H2803 a curse to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:22 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? H2803

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:28 - Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted H2803 like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 - Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think H2803 so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:17 - Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard H2803 silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed H2803 as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 - Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed H2803 as a forest?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:15 - Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted H2803 for a forest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth H2803 no man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted H2803 as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 - All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted H2803 to him less than nothing, and vanity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:3 - He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed H2803 him not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:4 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem H2803 him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised H2803 devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:8 - If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought H2803 to do unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise H2803 a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 - Then said they, Come, and let us devise H2803 devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - Which think H2803 to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose H2803 to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think H2803 toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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