H4284 מַחֲשָׁבָה
machăshâbâh — a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
KJV: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose…
Derived from חָשַׁב châshab (to plait or interpenetrate)
Occurs 56 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַחֲשָׁבָה n.f. thought, device
- 1 thought
- 2 device, plan, purpose
- 3 invention
Where it occurs
- Genesis 6:5 — The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s…
- Exodus 31:4 — to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,
- Exodus 35:32 — and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,
- Exodus 35:33 — in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
- Exodus 35:35 — He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and…
- 2 Samuel 14:14 — For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away…
- Isaiah 55:7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, and he will have…
- Isaiah 55:8 — “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says the LORD.
- Isaiah 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.
- Isaiah 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and…