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Lexicon :: Strong's H4284 - maḥăšāḇâ

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מַחֲשָׁבָה
Transliteration
maḥăšāḇâ
Pronunciation
makh-ash-aw-baw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 767d

Strong’s Definitions

מַחֲשָׁבָה machăshâbâh, makh-ash-aw-baw'; or מַחֲשֶׁבֶת machăshebeth; from H2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice):—cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 56x

The KJV translates Strong's H4284 in the following manner: thought (28x), device (12x), purpose (6x), work (3x), imaginations (3x), cunning (1x), devised (1x), invented (1x), means (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 56x
The KJV translates Strong's H4284 in the following manner: thought (28x), device (12x), purpose (6x), work (3x), imaginations (3x), cunning (1x), devised (1x), invented (1x), means (1x).

  1. thought, device

    1. thought

    2. device, plan, purpose

    3. invention

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַחֲשָׁבָה machăshâbâh, makh-ash-aw-baw'; or מַחֲשֶׁבֶת machăshebeth; from H2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice):—cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
STRONGS H4284: Abbreviations
† מַחֲשָׁבָה noun feminine thought, device (chiefly in poetry and late) — absolute מ׳ Jeremiah 18:11; Jeremiah 49:30; מַחֲשֶׁ֫בֶת Ezekiel 38:10; מַחֲשָׁ֑בֶת Exodus 35:33; 2 Chronicles 2:13; construct מַחֲשֶׁבֶת Esther 8:5; 2 Chronicles 26:15; suffix מַחֲשַׁבְתּוֺ Esther 8:3; Esther 9:25; plural מַחֲשָׁבוֺת Jeremiah 11:19 + 7 times; מַחֲשְׁבֹת Exodus 31:4 + 3 times; construct מַחְשְׁבוֺת Isaiah 59:7 + 13 times; מַחְשְׁבֹת Genesis 6:5; suffix מַחְשְׁבוֺתַי Isaiah 55:8 etc. + 19 times suffixes; —
1. thought:
a. of man אדם מ׳ Psalm 94:11; לֵב מ׳ Psalm 33:11 thoughts of the mind; (לבׅ (כל) יצר מ׳ Genesis 6:5 (J), 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:18.
b. of God יהוה מ׳ Micah 4:12; with אֶלֿ Psalm 40:6; עַלֿ Jeremiah 51:29; the thoughts of God are exceeding deep Psalm 92:6; higher than man's thoughts Isaiah 55:8 (twice in verse); Isaiah 55:9 (twice in verse).
2. device, plan, purpose Isaiah 55:7; Isaiah 59:7; Isaiah 65:2; Isaiah 66:18; Jeremiah 6:19; Jeremiah 18:12; Psalm 56:6; Proverbs 19:21; Job 21:27; Lamentations 3:60, 61; Esther 8:5; חָרוּץ מ׳ Proverbs 21:5; עֲרוּמִים מ׳ Job 5:12; צדיקים מ׳ Proverbs 12:5; עמים מ׳ Psalm 33:10; אֹון מ׳ Isaiah 59:7; Jeremiah 4:14; Proverbs 6:18; רע מ׳ Proverbs 15:26; שָׁלוֺם מ׳ Jeremiah 21:11; חשׁב מ׳ devise devices 2 Samuel 14:14; Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 18:11, 18; Jeremiah 29:11; Jeremiah 49:20, 30; Jeremiah 50:45; Ezekiel 38:10; Daniel 11:24, 25; Esther 8:3; Esther 9:25; מ׳ as subject of נָכוֺן be established Proverbs 16:3; Proverbs 20:18; הפר מ׳ break plans Proverbs 15:22.
3. invention Exodus 31:4; Exodus 35:32, 33, 35 (all P), 2 Chron 2:13; 2 Chronicles 26:15 (see חָשַׁב I 5).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:5; 6:5

Exodus

31:4; 31:4; 35:32; 35:33; 35:33; 35:35

2 Samuel

14:14

1 Chronicles

28:9; 29:18

2 Chronicles

2:13; 2:13; 26:15; 26:15

Esther

8:3; 8:3; 8:5; 8:5; 9:25; 9:25

Job

5:12; 21:27

Psalms

33:10; 33:11; 40:6; 56:6; 92:6; 94:11

Proverbs

6:18; 12:5; 15:22; 15:26; 16:3; 19:21; 20:18; 21:5

Isaiah

55:7; 55:8; 55:8; 55:9; 59:7; 59:7; 59:7; 65:2; 66:18

Jeremiah

4:14; 6:19; 11:19; 11:19; 18:11; 18:11; 18:12; 18:18; 21:11; 29:11; 49:20; 49:30; 49:30; 50:45; 51:29

Lamentations

3:60; 3:61

Ezekiel

38:10; 38:10

Daniel

11:24; 11:25

Micah

4:12

H4284

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4284 matches the Hebrew מַחֲשָׁבָה (maḥăšāḇâ),
which occurs 56 times in 52 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 6:5–Dan 11:24)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:5 - The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the eretz, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:4 - to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:32 - and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:33 - in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:35 - He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:14 - For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:9 - You, Shlomo my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:18 - LORD, the God of Avraham, of Yitzchak, and of Yisra'el, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart to you;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:14 - the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tzor, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 26:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:15 - He made in Yerushalayim engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:3 - Ester spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Yehudim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:5 - She said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedata the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Yehudim who are in all the king's provinces:

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Yehudim, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:12 - He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:27 - "Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:10 - The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:11 - The counsel of the LORD stands fast forever, The thoughts of his heart to all generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:5 - Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, And your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be set in order to you; If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 56:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:5 - All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:5 - How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:11 - The LORD knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:18 - A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:5 - The thoughts of the righteous are just, But the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:22 - Where there is no counsel, plans fail; But in a multitude of counselors they are established.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26 - The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, But the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:3 - Commit your deeds to the LORD, And your plans shall succeed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:21 - There are many plans in a man's heart, But the LORD's counsel will prevail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:18 - Plans are established by advice; By wise guidance you wage war!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:5 - The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; And everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:7 - let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:8 - For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:9 - For as the heavens are higher than the eretz, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:2 - I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 66:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:18 - For I know their works and their thoughts: the time comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:14 - Yerushalayim, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:19 - Hear, eretz: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it, 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 Box Jer 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - Now therefore, speak to the men of Yehudah, and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, saying, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12 - But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:18

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of shalom, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:20 - Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:30 - Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hatzor, says the LORD; for Nevukhadretztzar king of Bavel has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:45 - Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Bavel; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Kasdim: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of the LORD against Bavel do stand, to make the land of Bavel a desolation, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:60

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:60 - You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:61

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:61 - You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their devices against me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:10 - Thus says the Lord GOD: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:24 - In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.

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