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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 - And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:33 - and in graving of stones for settings, and in graving of wood to work in any work of design.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:35 - He hath filled them with wisdom of heart to do every work, of engraver, and designer, and embroiderer (in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in linen), and weaver, who do any work, and of designers of designs.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:14 - for we do surely die, and are as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:9 - 'And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:18 - 'O Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this to the age for the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and prepare their heart unto Thee;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:14 - (son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre), knowing to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stones, and in wood, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, and to grave any graving, and to devise any device that is given to him, with thy wise men, and the wise men of my lord David thy father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 26:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:15 - And he maketh in Jerusalem inventions -- a device of an inventor -- to be on the towers, and on the corners, to shoot with arrows and with great stones, and his name goeth out unto a distance, for he hath been wonderfully helped till that he hath been strong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:3 - And Esther addeth, and speaketh before the king, and falleth before his feet, and weepeth, and maketh supplication to him, to cause the evil of Haman the Agagite to pass away, and his device that he had devised against the Jews;

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:5 - and saith, 'If to the king it be good, and if I have found grace before him, and the thing hath been right before the king, and I be good in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the letters -- a device of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite -- that he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all provinces of the king,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, 'Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:12 - Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:27 - Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:10 - Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:11 - The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:5 - Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 56:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:5 - All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts are for evil,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:5 - How great have been Thy works, O Jehovah, Very deep have been Thy thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:11 - He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:18 - A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:5 - The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked -- deceit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:22 - Without counsel is the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26 - An abomination to Jehovah are thoughts of wickedness, And pure are sayings of pleasantness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:3 - Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:21 - Many are the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:18 - Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:5 - The purposes of the diligent are only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:7 - Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:8 - For not My thoughts are your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:9 - For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7 - Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction are in their highways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:2 - I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 66:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:18 - And I -- their works and their thoughts, I come to gather all the nations and tongues, And they have come and seen My honour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:14 - Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:19 - Hear, O earth, lo, I am bringing evil on this people, The fruit of their devices, For to My words they gave no attention, And My law -- they kick against it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - And I am as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - And now, speak, I pray thee, unto men of Judah, And against inhabitants of Jerusalem, Saying: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am framing against you evil, And devising against you a device, Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way And amen your ways and your doings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:12 - And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 - And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:11 - For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you -- an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:20 - Therefore, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, That He hath counselled concerning Edom, And His devices that He hath devised Concerning the inhabitants of Teman: Drag them out do not little ones of the flock, Make desolate over them doth he not their habitation?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:30 - Flee, bemoan mightily, go deep to dwell, Ye inhabitants of Hazor -- an affirmation of Jehovah, For given counsel against you hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, Yea, he deviseth against them a device.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:45 - Therefore, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, That He counselled concerning Babylon, And His devices that He hath devised Concerning the land of the Chaldeans; Drag them out do not little ones of the flock, Doth He not make desolate over them the habitation?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:29 - And shake doth the land, and it is pained, For stood against Babylon have the purposes of Jehovah, 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 - Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:61

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:61 - Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:10 - Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And it hath come to pass in that day, Come up do things on thy heart, And thou hast thought an evil thought,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:24 - Peaceably even into the fertile places of the province He cometh, and he hath done that which his fathers did not, nor his fathers' fathers; prey, and spoil, and substance, to them he scattereth, and against fenced places he deviseth his devices, even for a time.

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