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מַחֲשָׁבָה
machăshâbâh · Hebrew · Strong's H4284 · 56 occurrences
The KJV renders 19 different Hebrew and Greek words as “thought”
What it means
a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
or מַחֲשֶׁבֶת; from H2803 (חָשַׁב);
How the KJV renders it
cunning, curious work, device, imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“thought”
also renders nóēma (G3540), enthýmēsis (G1761), epínoia (G1963), dianóēma (G1270), logismós (G3053), dialogismós (G1261), dâbâr (H1697), harhôr (H2031), zimmâh (H2154), chêqeq (H2711), môwrâsh (H4180), mᵉzimmâh (H4209), çêʻêph (H5588), ʻeshtônâh (H6250), rêaʻ (H7454), raʻyôwn (H7476), sêach (H7808), sarʻaph (H8312)
“purpose”
“device”
“imagination”
Answers that weigh this word
Where it appears
56 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 52 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 28:9 · HNcfpa
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
1 Chronicles 29:18 · HNcfpc
Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
2 Chronicles 2:14 · HNcfsa
the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre. He is skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind 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.
2 Chronicles 26:15 · HNcfsc
In Jerusalem, he made devices, 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, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
2 Samuel 14:14 · HNcfpa
For we must die, and are like water spilled 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.
Daniel 11:24 · HNcfpc/Sp3ms
In time of security he will come even on the fattest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will scatter among them prey, plunder, and wealth. Yes, he will devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.
Daniel 11:25 HNcfpaEsther 8:3 HNcfsc/Sp3msEsther 8:5 HNcfscEsther 9:25 HNcfsc/Sp3msExodus 31:4 HNcfpaExodus 35:32 HNcfpaExodus 35:33 HNcfsaExodus 35:35 HNcfpaEzekiel 38:10 HNcfscGenesis 6:5 HNcfpcIsaiah 55:7 HNcfpc/Sp3msIsaiah 55:8 HNcfpc/Sp1csIsaiah 55:9 HC/Ncfpc/Sp1csIsaiah 59:7 HNcfpcIsaiah 65:2 HNcfpc/Sp3mpIsaiah 66:18 HC/Ncfpc/Sp3mpJeremiah 4:14 HNcfpcJeremiah 6:19 HNcfpc/Sp3mpJeremiah 11:19 HNcfpaJeremiah 18:11 HNcfsaJeremiah 18:12 HNcfpc/Sp1cpJeremiah 18:18 HNcfpaJeremiah 29:11 HNcfpcJeremiah 49:20 HC/Ncfpc/Sp3msJeremiah 49:30 HNcfsaJeremiah 50:45 HC/Ncfpc/Sp3msJeremiah 51:29 HNcfpcJob 5:12 HNcfpcJob 21:27 HNcfpc/Sp2mpLamentations 3:60 HNcfpc/Sp3mpLamentations 3:61 HNcfpc/Sp3mpMicah 4:12 HNcfpcProverbs 6:18 HNcfpcProverbs 12:5 HNcfpcProverbs 15:22 HNcfpaProverbs 15:26 HNcfpcProverbs 16:3 HNcfpc/Sp2msProverbs 19:21 HNcfpaProverbs 20:18 HNcfpaProverbs 21:5 HNcfpcPsalm 33:10 HNcfpcPsalm 33:11 HNcfpcPsalm 40:5 HC/Ncfpc/Sp2msPsalm 56:5 HNcfpc/Sp3mpPsalm 92:5 HNcfpc/Sp2msPsalm 94:11 HNcfpc
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