# H4284 מַחֲשָׁבָה

מַחֲשָׁבָה (machăshâbâh), Strong’s H4284: a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice) KJV: cunning (work), curious…

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*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](https://besorah.bible/word/H2803) (to plait or interpenetrate)

Occurs 56 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַחֲשָׁבָה n.f. thought, device
- 1 thought
- 2 device, plan, purpose
- 3 invention

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 6:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/31?v=4) — to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,
- [Exodus 35:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/35?v=32) — and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,
- [Exodus 35:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/35?v=33) — in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
- [Exodus 35:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/35?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/14?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/55?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/55?v=8) — “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says the LORD.
- [Isaiah 55:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/55?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=7) — Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and…