H4284 · מַחֲשָׁבָה
machăshâbâh · makh-ash-aw-baw' · thought, device, purpose
H4284 (machăshâbâh, pronounced makh-ash-aw-baw') is the Hebrew word מַחֲשָׁבָה in Strong’s dictionary: a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot. It appears 56 times in 52 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- מַחֲשָׁבָה (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- machăshâbâh
- Pronunciation
- makh-ash-aw-baw'
- Derivation
- or מַחֲשֶׁבֶת; from H2803 (חָשַׁב);
- Definition
- a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
- Rendered in the KJV
- cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
56 occurrences in 52 verses (52 with English words of their own, 4 in the original with no English word of their own).
How the BSB renders it
- “artistic” ×3
- “plans” ×3
- “the thoughts” ×3
- “The plans” ×2
- “and the strategies” ×2
- “scheme” ×2
- “thoughts” ×2
- “My thoughts” ×1
By book
Genesis 1 · Exodus 4 · 2 Samuel 1 · 1 Chronicles 2 · 2 Chronicles 2 · Esther 3 · Job 2 · Psalms 6 · Proverbs 8 · Isaiah 6 · Jeremiah 11 · Lamentations 2 · Ezekiel 1 · Daniel 2 · Micah 1
First 30 of 52 verses
- Genesis 6:5
- Exodus 31:4
- Exodus 35:32
- Exodus 35:33
- Exodus 35:35
- 2 Samuel 14:14
- 1 Chronicles 28:9
- 1 Chronicles 29:18
- 2 Chronicles 2:14
- 2 Chronicles 26:15
- Esther 8:3
- Esther 8:5
- Esther 9:25
- Job 5:12
- Job 21:27
- Psalms 33:10
- Psalms 33:11
- Psalms 40:5
- Psalms 56:5
- Psalms 92:5
- Psalms 94:11
- Proverbs 6:18
- Proverbs 12:5
- Proverbs 15:22
- Proverbs 15:26
- Proverbs 16:3
- Proverbs 19:21
- Proverbs 20:18
- Proverbs 21:5
- Isaiah 55:7
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H4284.