TBESH · H4284
מַחֲשָׁבָה · ma.cha.sha.vah · plot
1) thought, device 1a) thought 1b) device, plan, purpose 1c) invention
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ma.cha.sha.vah H4284
מַחֲשָׁבָה (ma.cha.sha.vah) means “plot” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
מַחֲשָׁבָה Hebrew · H4284 56 tagged occurrences in 52 verses
Pronunciation guide: makh-ash-aw-baw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or מַחֲשֶׁבֶת; from H2803 (חָשַׁב); a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
KJV glosses: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
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How translators render H4284
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| plans | 4 |
| artistic | 3 |
| the plans | 3 |
| the thoughts | 3 |
| and the strategies | 2 |
| scheme | 2 |
| their plots | 2 |
| their thoughts | 2 |
| thoughts | 2 |
| a plan | 1 |
| a strategy | 1 |
| and my thoughts | 1 |
| and the plans you have | 1 |
| and thoughts | 1 |
| and your plans | 1 |
| are your thoughts | 1 |
| design | 1 |
| designed | 1 |
| his thoughts | 1 |
| in the intentions | 1 |
| intentions | 1 |
| my thoughts | 1 |
| of the thoughts | 1 |
| of their own schemes | 1 |
| our own plans | 1 |
| plan | 1 |
| schemes | 1 |
| than your thoughts | 1 |
| that the scheming | 1 |
| the devices | 1 |
| the plots | 1 |
| the purposes | 1 |
| the schemes | 1 |
| their own imaginations | 1 |
| thought | 1 |
| ways | 1 |
| your thoughts | 1 |
| your thoughts full well | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the thoughts | 6 |
| devices | 4 |
| of the thoughts | 3 |
| thoughts | 3 |
| all their imaginations | 2 |
| and his purposes | 2 |
| and thy thoughts | 2 |
| the devices | 2 |
| a device | 1 |
| a purpose | 1 |
| all their thoughts | 1 |
| and his device | 1 |
| and my thoughts | 1 |
| and their thoughts | 1 |
| any manner of cunning | 1 |
| cunning work | 1 |
| cunning works | 1 |
| curious works | 1 |
| device | 1 |
| devised | 1 |
| every device | 1 |
| for every purpose | 1 |
| for my thoughts | 1 |
| his devices | 1 |
| his thoughts | 1 |
| imaginations | 1 |
| invented | 1 |
| means | 1 |
| not the thoughts | 1 |
| not your thoughts | 1 |
| of their thoughts | 1 |
| our own devices | 1 |
| purpose | 1 |
| purposes | 1 |
| than your thoughts | 1 |
| their own thoughts | 1 |
| their thoughts | 1 |
| thought | 1 |
| thy thoughts | 1 |
| your thoughts | 1 |
Verses containing H4284
Page 1 of 2. 52 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 6:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
Read word by word - Exodus 31:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,
Read word by word - Exodus 35:32
· BSB · 1 occurrence
to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,
Read word by word - Exodus 35:33
· BSB · 1 occurrence
to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every artistic craft.
Read word by word - Exodus 35:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 14:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For we will surely 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.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 28:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
Read word by word - 1 Chronicles 29:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this desire forever in the intentions of the hearts of Your people, and direct their hearts toward You.
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 2:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.13
- 2 Chronicles 26:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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 until he became powerful.
Read word by word - Esther 8:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Esther 8:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
Read word by word - Esther 9:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Job 5:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
Read word by word - Job 21:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Read word by word - Psalms 33:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
Read word by word - Psalms 33:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
Read word by word - Psalms 40:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 40.6
- Psalms 56:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 56.6
- Psalms 92:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 92.6
- Psalms 94:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
Read word by word - Proverbs 6:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
Read word by word - Proverbs 12:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.
Read word by word - Proverbs 15:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Read word by word - Proverbs 15:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
Read word by word - Proverbs 16:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
Read word by word - Proverbs 19:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
Read word by word - Proverbs 20:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
Read word by word - Proverbs 21:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.
Read word by word - Isaiah 55:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
Read word by word - Isaiah 55:8
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
Read word by word - Isaiah 55:9
· BSB · 2 occurrences
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Read word by word - Isaiah 59:7
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
Read word by word - Isaiah 65:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
Read word by word - Isaiah 66:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 4:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 6:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 11:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 18:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 18:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 18:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 29:11
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 49:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 49:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 50:45
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 51:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Read word by word - Lamentations 3:60
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
Read word by word - Lamentations 3:61
· BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
Read word by word - Ezekiel 38:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
Read word by word - Daniel 11:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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