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חָשַׁב

cha.shavto devise: designHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb124 occurrences28 books122 verses

Definition

a primitive root; 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
Traditional renderings: (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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders חָשַׁב:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

124 total
  1. Job 6:26תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּ · Do you intend
    Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
  2. Job 13:24וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי · and consider me
    Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
  3. Job 18:3נֶחְשַׁ֣בְנוּ · are we regarded
    Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?
  4. Job 19:11וַיַּחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי · and He counts me
    His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
  5. Job 19:15תַּחְשְׁבֻ֑נִי · count me
    My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
  6. Job 33:10יַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי · He counts me
    Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
  7. Job 35:2חָשַׁ֣בְתָּ · Do you think
    “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
  8. Job 41:27יַחְשֹׁ֣ב · He regards
    He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
  9. Job 41:29נֶחְשְׁב֣וּ · is regarded
    A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
  10. Job 41:32יַחְשֹׁ֖ב · one would think
    He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!
  11. Psalm 10:2חָשָֽׁבוּ׃ · they devise
    In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
  12. Psalm 21:11חָֽשְׁב֥וּ · they devise
    Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
  13. Psalm 32:2יַחְשֹׁ֬ב · count
    Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
  14. Psalm 35:4חֹ֝שְׁבֵ֗י · may those who plan
    May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
  15. Psalm 35:20יַחֲשֹׁבֽוּן׃ · but they devise
    For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.
  16. Psalm 36:4יַחְשֹׁ֗ב · he plots
    Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
  17. Psalm 40:17יַחֲשָׁ֫ב · think
    But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.
  18. Psalm 41:7יַחְשְׁב֖וּ · they imagine
    All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:
  19. Psalm 44:22נֶ֝חְשַׁ֗בְנוּ · we are considered
    Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
  20. Psalm 52:2תַּחְשֹׁ֣ב · devises
    Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
  21. Psalm 73:16וָֽ֭אֲחַשְּׁבָה · When I tried
    When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
  22. Psalm 77:5חִשַּׁ֣בְתִּי · I considered
    I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.
  23. Psalm 88:4נֶ֭חְשַׁבְתִּי · I am counted
    I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
  24. Psalm 106:31וַתֵּחָ֣שֶׁב · It was credited
    It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
  25. Psalm 119:59חִשַּׁ֥בְתִּי · I considered
    I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
  26. Psalm 140:2חָשְׁב֣וּ · devise
    …who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.
  27. Psalm 140:4חָ֝שְׁב֗וּ · scheme
    Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
  28. Psalm 144:3וַֽתְּחַשְּׁבֵֽהוּ׃ · You think of him
    O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
  29. Proverbs 16:9יְחַשֵּׁ֣ב · plans
    A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
  30. Proverbs 16:30לַחְשֹׁ֣ב · devises
    He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.
  31. Proverbs 17:28יֵחָשֵׁ֑ב · is considered
    Even a fool is considered wise if he keeps silent, and discerning when he holds his tongue.
  32. Proverbs 24:8מְחַשֵּׁ֥ב · He who plots
    He who plots evil will be called a schemer.
  33. Proverbs 27:14תֵּחָ֥שֶׁב · it will be counted
    If one blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted to him as a curse.
  34. Isaiah 2:22נֶחְשָׁ֖ב · account
    Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
  35. Isaiah 5:28נֶחְשָׁ֔בוּ
    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.
  36. Isaiah 10:7יַחְשֹׁ֑ב
    But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
  37. Isaiah 13:17יַחְשֹׁ֔בוּ · regard
    Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
  38. Isaiah 29:16יֵֽחָשֵׁ֑ב · were regarded
    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”?
  39. Isaiah 29:17יֵחָשֵֽׁב׃ · seem
    In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?
  40. Isaiah 32:15יֵחָשֵֽׁב׃ · will seem
    …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.
  41. Isaiah 33:8חָשַׁ֖ב · is disregarded
    The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
  42. Isaiah 40:15נֶחְשָׁ֑בוּ · they are considered
    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.
  43. Isaiah 40:17נֶחְשְׁבוּ־ · He regards them
    All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
  44. Isaiah 53:3חֲשַׁבְנֻֽהוּ׃ · and we esteemed Him
    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.
  45. Isaiah 53:4חֲשַׁבְנֻ֔הוּ · considered Him
    Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
  46. Jeremiah 11:19חָשְׁב֣וּ · they had plotted
    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.”
  47. Jeremiah 18:8חָשַׁ֖בְתִּי · I had planned
    But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
  48. Jeremiah 18:11וְחֹשֵׁ֥ב · and devising
    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.’
  49. Jeremiah 18:18וְנַחְשְׁבָ֣ה · let us make plans
    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.”
  50. Jeremiah 23:27הַחֹשְׁבִ֗ים · They suppose
    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.