Hebrew verb · H2161
זָמַם
zamamzaw-mam'
to plan
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zâmam
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2161is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2161
to plan, usually in a bad sense
The King James renders it: consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zamam is rendered "to plan". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
Genesis 11:6יָזְמ֖וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in seven of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he planned2
- I have resolved2
- he has purposed1
- he purposed1
- I have planned1
- I planned1
- plotting1
- she considers1
- they plotted1
- they will plan1
- you have plotted1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- זַ֝מּ֗וֹתָ1
- זָמַ֖ם1
- זָמַ֣ם1
- זָמַ֜ם1
- זָמָ֗ם1
- זֹמֵ֣ם1
- זָמְמָ֣ה1
- זָמָֽמוּ׃1
- זָמַמְ֜תִּי1
- זָמַ֙מְתִּי֙1
- זַ֝מֹּתִ֗י1
- זַמֹּ֔תִי1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular4HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
Genesis
one use
And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
- יָזְמ֖וּyazemuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will plan
Deuteronomy
one use
you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- זָמַ֖םzamamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he planned
Psalms
three uses
You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
- זַ֝מֹּתִ֗יzamotiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have resolved
For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
- זָמָֽמוּ׃zamamuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they plotted
The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- זֹמֵ֣םzomemverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: plotting
Proverbs
two uses
If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
- זַ֝מּ֗וֹתָzamotaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have plotted
She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.
- זָמְמָ֣הzamemahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she considers
Jeremiah
two uses
Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
- זַמֹּ֔תִיzamotiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have resolved
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
- זָמַ֣םzamamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has purposed
Lamentations
one use
The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
- זָמָ֗םzamamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he purposed
Zechariah
three uses
But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
- זָמַ֜םzamamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he planned
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,
- זָמַמְ֜תִּיzamamtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I planned
“so now I have resolved to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.
- זָמַ֙מְתִּי֙zamamtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have planned
The letters
Gematria 87· 647 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.