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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 - Then the LORD[fn] saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent 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 design artistic works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:32 - “to design artistic works, to work in gold and silver and bronze,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:33 - “in cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood, and to work in all manner of artistic workmanship.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:35 - “He has filled them with skill to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and the tapestry maker, in blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine linen, and of the weaver—those who do every work and those who design artistic works.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:14 - “For we will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:9 - “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by 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 - “O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the intent of the thoughts of the heart of Your people, and fix their heart toward 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 Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given 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 - And he made devices in Jerusalem, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and large stones. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was marvelously helped till he became strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:3 - Now Esther spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Haman the Agagite, and the scheme which he had devised against the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:5 - and said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight and the thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to annihilate the Jews 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 Esther[fn] came before the king, he commanded by letter that this[fn] wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews 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 cannot carry out their plans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:27 - “Look, I know your thoughts,
And the schemes 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 plans of the peoples of no effect.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:5 - Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works
Which You have done;
And Your thoughts toward us
Cannot be recounted to You in order;
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 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 - O LORD, how great are Your works!
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 plans,
Feet that are swift in running to evil,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:5 - The thoughts of the righteous are right,
But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:22 - Without counsel, plans go awry,
But in the multitude of counselors they are established.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26 - The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD,
But the words of the pure are pleasant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:3 - Commit your works to the LORD,
And your thoughts will be established.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:21 - There are many plans in a man’s heart,
Nevertheless the LORD’s counsel—that will stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:18 - Plans are established by counsel;
By wise counsel wage war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:5 - The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty,
But those of everyone who is hasty, surely 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;
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,
Nor 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 earth,
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;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:2 - I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people,
Who walk in a way that is not good,
According to 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. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:14 - O Jerusalem, 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, O earth!
Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people—
The fruit of their thoughts,
Because they have not heeded My words
Nor My law, but rejected it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:19

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12 - And they said, “That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one obey the dictates of his evil heart.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 - Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans 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 attack 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 peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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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 proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:30 - “Flee, get far away! Dwell in the depths,
O inhabitants of Hazor!” says the LORD.
“For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you,
And has conceived a plan 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 Babylon,
And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans:
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - And the land will tremble and sorrow;
For every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,
To make the land of Babylon 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,
All their schemes against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:61

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:61 - You have heard their reproach, O LORD,
All their schemes against me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:10 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan:

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:24 - “He shall enter peaceably, even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers: he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches; and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.

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