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Hebrew verb · H2803

חָשַׁב

chashabkhaw-shab'

to devise: design

124 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: châshab

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2803is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 28 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 102
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2803

properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute

The King James renders it: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.

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

chashab is rendered "to devise: design". It stands 124 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-eight books.

  • Eighteen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:6Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
  • The Greek text spells it 102 different ways.

The first use

Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

Genesis 15:6וַיַּחְשְׁבֶ֥הָ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a skillful worker8
  • planning6
  • and he will calculate5
  • they are regarded5
  • he had planned3
  • it is reckoned3
  • it will be reckoned3
  • they have planned3
  • and a skillful worker2
  • and he considered her2
  • and it will be reckoned2
  • and to design2

and 74 more, 124 uses in all

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.

חָשַׂךְchasakto withholdUses28
חָשַׁךְchashakto darkenUses17
חָשַׂףchasaphto stripUses11
חָשַׁקchashaqto desireUses11
חָשַׁשׁchashashchaffUses2
חָשַׁלchashalbe feebleUses1

All 124, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

102 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

  • חָשַׁ֖ב4
  • חֹשֵׁ֖ב4
  • וְחִשַּׁב־3
  • חֹשֵׁ֛ב3
  • וְחִשַּׁב֙2
  • וַיַּחְשְׁבֶ֥הָ2
  • וְלַחְשֹׁ֖ב2
  • חָשַׁ֥ב2
  • חֹשֵׁ֥ב2
  • חֹשֵֽׁב׃2
  • חָשְׁב֣וּ2
  • יֵחָשֵׁ֑ב2

and 90 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular14HVqrmsa
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular8HVNi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular8HVqp3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural7HVNp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural7HVqp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular6HVqi3ms
  • Hc/Vpq3ms5Hc/Vpq3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular4HVNi3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular3HC/Vqrmsa
  • Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fs3Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural3HVNp1cp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular3HVNrmsa

Genesis

five uses
  • Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

    Genesis 15:6

    • וַיַּחְשְׁבֶ֥הָvaiyachshevehaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he credited it
  • Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

    Genesis 31:15

    • נֶחְשַׁ֥בְנוּnechshavnuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: are we accounted
  • When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

    Genesis 38:15

    • וַֽיַּחְשְׁבֶ֖הָvaiyachshevehaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he considered her
  • As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

    Genesis 50:20

    • חֲשַׁבְתֶּ֥םchashavtemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you planned
    • חֲשָׁבָ֣הּchashavahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he planned it

Exodus

thirteen uses
  • “You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.

    Exodus 26:1

    • חֹשֵׁ֖בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a skillful worker
  • Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

    Exodus 26:31

    • חֹשֵׁ֛בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a skillful worker
  • They are to make the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.

    Exodus 28:6

    • חֹשֵֽׁב׃choshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a skillful worker
  • You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.

    Exodus 28:15

    • חֹשֵׁ֔בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a skillful worker
  • to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

    Exodus 31:4

    • לַחְשֹׁ֖בlachshopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to design
  • to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

    Exodus 35:32

    • וְלַחְשֹׁ֖בvelachshoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to design
  • He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and as weavers—as artistic designers of every kind of craft.

    Exodus 35:35

    • וְחֹשֵׁב֒vechoshevconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and a skillful worker
    • וְחֹשְׁבֵ֖יvechosheveiconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and designers of
  • All the skilled craftsmen among the workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

    Exodus 36:8

    • חֹשֵׁ֖בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a skillful worker
  • Next, he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

    Exodus 36:35

    • חֹשֵׁ֛בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a skillful worker
  • With him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, designer, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.

    Exodus 38:23

    • וְחֹשֵׁ֑בvechoshevconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and a skillful worker
  • They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen—the work of a skilled craftsman.

    Exodus 39:3

    • חֹשֵֽׁב׃choshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a skillful worker
  • He made the breastpiece with the same workmanship as the ephod, with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.

    Exodus 39:8

    • חֹשֵׁ֖בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: a skillful worker

Leviticus

eight uses
  • If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

    Leviticus 7:18

    • יֵחָשֵׁ֛בyechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be reckoned
  • instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle—that man shall incur bloodguilt. He has shed blood and must be cut off from among his people.

    Leviticus 17:4

    • יֵחָשֵׁ֞בyechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be reckoned
  • he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.

    Leviticus 25:27

    • וְחִשַּׁב֙vechishavHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will calculate
  • But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

    Leviticus 25:31

    • יֵחָשֵׁ֑בyechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be reckoned
  • He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.

    Leviticus 25:50

    • וְחִשַּׁב֙vechishavHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will calculate
  • If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.

    Leviticus 25:52

    • וְחִשַּׁב־vechishav-Hc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will calculate
  • But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.

    Leviticus 27:18

    • וְחִשַּׁב־vechishav-Hc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will calculate
  • then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.

    Leviticus 27:23

    • וְחִשַּׁב־vechishav-Hc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will calculate

Numbers

three uses
  • Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.

    Numbers 18:27

    • וְנֶחְשַׁ֥בvenechshavHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be reckoned
  • Therefore say to the Levites, ‘When you have presented the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the produce of the threshing floor or winepress.

    Numbers 18:30

    • וְנֶחְשַׁב֙venechshavHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be reckoned
  • For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.

    Numbers 23:9

    • יִתְחַשָּֽׁב׃yitchashavverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it reckons itself

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.

    Deuteronomy 2:11

    • יֵחָשְׁב֥וּyechashevuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they were regarded
  • (That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

    Deuteronomy 2:20

    • תֵּחָשֵׁ֖בtechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was regarded

Joshua

one use
  • All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites, from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;

    Joshua 13:3

    • תֵּחָשֵׁ֑בtechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is reckoned

1 Samuel

two uses
  • Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk

    1 Samuel 1:13

    • וַיַּחְשְׁבֶ֥הָvaiyachshevehaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he considered her
  • Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.

    1 Samuel 18:25

    • חָשַׁ֔בchashavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he planned

2 Samuel

four uses
  • Saul’s son had two men who were leaders of raiding parties. One was named Baanah and the other Rechab; they were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite of the tribe of Benjamin—Beeroth is considered part of Benjamin,

    2 Samuel 4:2

    • תֵּחָשֵׁ֖בtechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is reckoned
  • The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

    2 Samuel 14:13

    • חָשַׁ֛בְתָּהchashavtahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have you planned
  • For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

    2 Samuel 14:14

    • וְחָשַׁב֙vechashavHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he plans
  • and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

    2 Samuel 19:19

    • יַחֲשָׁב־yachashov-verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he reckon

1 Kings

one use
  • All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

    1 Kings 10:21

    • נֶחְשָׁ֛בnechshavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: reckoned

2 Kings

two uses
  • No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.

    2 Kings 12:15

    • יְחַשְּׁב֣וּyechashevuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they settled accounts
  • But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”

    2 Kings 22:7

    • יֵחָשֵׁ֣בyechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be accounted for

2 Chronicles

three uses
  • He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced in every kind of engraving and can execute any design that is given him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, your father David.

    2 Chronicles 2:14

    • וְלַחְשֹׁ֖בvelachshoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to design
  • All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

    2 Chronicles 9:20

    • נֶחְשָׁ֛בnechshavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: esteemed
  • And in Jerusalem he made skillfully designed devices to shoot arrows and catapult large stones from the towers and corners. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was helped tremendously so that he became powerful.

    2 Chronicles 26:15

    • חוֹשֵׁ֗בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: an inventor

Nehemiah

three uses
  • Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.

    Nehemiah 6:2

    • חֹֽשְׁבִ֔יםchoshevimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: planning
  • that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,

    Nehemiah 6:6

    • חֹשְׁבִ֣יםchoshevimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: planning
  • I appointed as treasurers over the storerooms Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, to assist them, because they were considered trustworthy. They were responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.

    Nehemiah 13:13

    • נֶחְשָׁ֔בוּnechshavuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were thought

Esther

three uses
  • And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

    Esther 8:3

    • חָשַׁ֖בchashavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had planned
  • For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.

    Esther 9:24

    • חָשַׁ֥בchashavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had planned
  • But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

    Esther 9:25

    • חָשַׁ֥בchashavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had planned

Job

ten uses
  • Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

    Job 6:26

    • תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּtachshouverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: do you plan
  • Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

    Job 13:24

    • וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִיvetachsheveniHC/Vqu2ms/Sp1bstagged: and do you consider? me
  • Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

    Job 18:3

    • נֶחְשַׁ֣בְנוּnechshavnuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: are we regarded
  • His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

    Job 19:11

    • וַיַּחְשְׁבֵ֖נִיvaiyachsheveniHc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and he has considered me
  • My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

    Job 19:15

    • תַּחְשְׁבֻ֑נִיtachshevuniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they consider me
  • Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

    Job 33:10

    • יַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִיyachsheveniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he considers me
  • “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

    Job 35:2

    • חָשַׁ֣בְתָּchashavtaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: do you consider
  • He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

    Job 41:27

    • יַחְשֹׁ֣בyachshoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it considers
  • A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

    Job 41:29

    • נֶחְשְׁב֣וּnechshevuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are regarded
  • He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

    Job 41:32

    • יַחְשֹׁ֖בyachshoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: anyone considers

Psalms

eighteen uses
  • In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

    Psalms 10:2

    • חָשָֽׁבוּ׃chashavuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have planned
  • Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

    Psalms 21:11

    • חָֽשְׁב֥וּchashevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have planned
  • Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

    Psalms 32:2

    • יַחְשֹׁ֬בyachshoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he reckons
  • May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.

    Psalms 35:4

    • חֹ֝שְׁבֵ֗יchosheveiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: plot
  • For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

    Psalms 35:20

    • יַחֲשֹׁבֽוּן׃yachashovunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they plan
  • Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

    Psalms 36:4

    • יַחְשֹׁ֗בyachshoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he plans
  • But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

    Psalms 40:17

    • יַחֲשָׁ֫בyachashavverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may he think
  • All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:

    Psalms 41:7

    • יַחְשְׁב֖וּyachshevuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they plot
  • Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

    Psalms 44:22

    • נֶ֝חְשַׁ֗בְנוּnechshavnuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have been regarded
  • Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

    Psalms 52:2

    • תַּחְשֹׁ֣בtachshoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it plots
  • When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight

    Psalms 73:16

    • וָֽ֭אֲחַשְּׁבָהvaachashevahHc/Vpw1cs/Shtagged: and I thought
  • I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

    Psalms 77:5

    • חִשַּׁ֣בְתִּיchishavtiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I thought about
  • I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

    Psalms 88:4

    • נֶ֭חְשַׁבְתִּיnechshavtiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am reckoned
  • It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

    Psalms 106:31

    • וַתֵּחָ֣שֶׁבvatechashevHc/VNw3fstagged: and it was reckoned
  • I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

    Psalms 119:59

    • חִשַּׁ֥בְתִּיchishavtiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have thought about
  • who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

    Psalms 140:2

    • חָשְׁב֣וּchashevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they plan
  • Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.

    Psalms 140:4

    • חָ֝שְׁב֗וּchashevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have planned
  • O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

    Psalms 144:3

    • וַֽתְּחַשְּׁבֵֽהוּ׃vatechashevehuHc/Vpw2ms/Sp3mstagged: and you have regarded him

Proverbs

five uses
  • A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

    Proverbs 16:9

    • יְחַשֵּׁ֣בyechashevverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it plans
  • He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.

    Proverbs 16:30

    • לַחְשֹׁ֣בlachshopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to devise
  • Even a fool is considered wise if he keeps silent, and discerning when he holds his tongue.

    Proverbs 17:28

    • יֵחָשֵׁ֑בyechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is considered
  • He who plots evil will be called a schemer.

    Proverbs 24:8

    • מְחַשֵּׁ֥בmechashevverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: plans
  • If one blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted to him as a curse.

    Proverbs 27:14

    • תֵּחָ֥שֶׁבtechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is reckoned

Isaiah

twelve uses
  • Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

    Isaiah 2:22

    • נֶחְשָׁ֖בnechshavverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: to be accounted
  • Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.

    Isaiah 5:28

    • נֶחְשָׁ֔בוּnechshavuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are regarded
  • But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

    Isaiah 10:7

    • יַחְשֹׁ֑בyachshoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it planned
  • Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

    Isaiah 13:17

    • יַחְשֹׁ֔בוּyachshouverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they value
  • You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

    Isaiah 29:16

    • יֵֽחָשֵׁ֑בyechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he be regarded
  • In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?

    Isaiah 29:17

    • יֵחָשֵֽׁב׃yechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be considered
  • until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

    Isaiah 32:15

    • יֵחָשֵֽׁב׃yechashevverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be considered
  • The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

    Isaiah 33:8

    • חָשַׁ֖בchashavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: anyone has valued
  • Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

    Isaiah 40:15

    • נֶחְשָׁ֑בוּnechshavuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are regarded
  • All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

    Isaiah 40:17

    • נֶחְשְׁבוּ־nechshevu-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are regarded
  • He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

    Isaiah 53:3

    • חֲשַׁבְנֻֽהוּ׃chashavnuhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: we valued him
  • Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

    Isaiah 53:4

    • חֲשַׁבְנֻ֔הוּchashavnuhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: we considered him

Jeremiah

twelve uses
  • For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

    Jeremiah 11:19

    • חָשְׁב֣וּchashevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had planned
  • But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

    Jeremiah 18:8

    • חָשַׁ֖בְתִּיchashavtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I had planned
  • Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’

    Jeremiah 18:11

    • וְחֹשֵׁ֥בvechoshevconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and about to plan
  • Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

    Jeremiah 18:18

    • וְנַחְשְׁבָ֣הvenachshevahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: so let us plan
  • They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.

    Jeremiah 23:27

    • הַחֹשְׁבִ֗יםhachoshevimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who plan
  • Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

    Jeremiah 26:3

    • חֹשֵׁב֙choshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: planning
  • For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

    Jeremiah 29:11

    • חֹשֵׁ֥בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: planning
  • Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

    Jeremiah 36:3

    • חֹשֵׁ֖בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: planning
  • There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

    Jeremiah 48:2

    • חָשְׁב֤וּchashevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people have planned
  • Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.

    Jeremiah 49:20

    • חָשַׁ֖בchashavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has purposed
  • Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.

    Jeremiah 49:30

    • וְחָשַׁ֥בvechashavHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he has purposed
  • Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.

    Jeremiah 50:45

    • חָשַׁ֖בchashavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has purposed

Lamentations

two uses
  • The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.

    Lamentations 2:8

    • חָשַׁ֨בchashavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has planned
  • How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!

    Lamentations 4:2

    • נֶחְשְׁבוּ֙nechshevuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are considered

Ezekiel

two uses
  • And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

    Ezekiel 11:2

    • הַחֹשְׁבִ֥יםhachoshevimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who plan
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

    Ezekiel 38:10

    • וְחָשַׁבְתָּ֖vechashavtaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will plan

Daniel

two uses
  • In a time of peace, he will invade the richest provinces and do what his fathers and forefathers never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will plot against the strongholds—but only for a time.

    Daniel 11:24

    • יְחַשֵּׁ֥בyechashevverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will plan
  • And with a large army he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South, who will mobilize a very large and powerful army but will not withstand the plots devised against him.

    Daniel 11:25

    • יַחְשְׁב֥וּyachshevuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people will plan

Hosea

two uses
  • Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.

    Hosea 7:15

    • יְחַשְּׁבוּ־yechashevu-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they plot
  • Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

    Hosea 8:12

    • נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃nechshavuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are regarded

Amos

one use
  • You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

    Amos 6:5

    • חָשְׁב֥וּchashevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have devised

Jonah

one use
  • Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.

    Jonah 1:4

    • חִשְּׁבָ֖הchishevahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it thought

Micah

two uses
  • Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

    Micah 2:1

    • חֹֽשְׁבֵי־choshevei-verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: plan
  • Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.

    Micah 2:3

    • חֹשֵׁ֛בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: planning

Nahum

two uses
  • Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.

    Nahum 1:9

    • תְּחַשְּׁבוּן֙techashevunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will plot
  • From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.

    Nahum 1:11

    • חֹשֵׁ֥בchoshevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: plots

Zechariah

two uses
  • Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

    Zechariah 7:10

    • תַּחְשְׁב֖וּtachshevuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you plan
  • do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.

    Zechariah 8:17

    • תַּחְשְׁבוּ֙tachshevuverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you plan

Malachi

one use
  • At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.

    Malachi 3:16

    • וּלְחֹשְׁבֵ֖יulechosheveiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and of esteemed

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