חָשַׁב chashav

Hebrew word for “to devise” · Strong’s H2803 · used 124 times in 122 verses

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Meaning

: devise/plot/plan; 1) to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count;

Senses in the lexicon

• to devise: devise (44)
• to devise: count (34)
• to devise: think (26)
• to devise: design (20)

How it is translated

Glosses given for chashav in context, with how often each is used:

• skillful worker 10
• regarded 8
• planning 6
• reckoned 6
• had planned 5
• will be reckoned 5
• will calculate 5
• considered 5
• planned 4
• have planned 3
• plans 3
• plan 3

Where it is used

Also in 16 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 25 (4), Job 41 (3), Jeremiah 18 (3), Exodus 26 (2), Exodus 28 (2), Exodus 35 (2), Exodus 36 (2), Exodus 39 (2), Leviticus 27 (2), Numbers 18 (2)

Forms

• חשׁב 21
• יחשׁב 17
• וחשׁב 10
• חשׁבו 7
• נחשׁבו 7
• יחשׁבו 6
• תחשׁב 5
• חשׁבתי 3
• תחשׁבו 3
• ויחשׁבה 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chashav more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַחֲשָׁבָה machashavah “plot” 18
• רַע ra “bad” 24
• אַרְגָּמָן argaman “purple” 11
• תְּכֵלֶת tekhelet “blue” 11
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “linen” 10
• שָׁנִי shani “scarlet” 10
• תּוֹלֵעָה toleah “worm” 10
• שָׁזַר shazar “to twist” 7
• מַעֲשֶׂה maaseh “deed” 10
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 11
• זָהָב zahav “gold” 10
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 11

Key verses

The verses using chashav that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Psalms 36:4 — He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
• Psalms 52:2 — Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Isaiah 32:15 — Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
• Isaiah 53:3 — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him…
• Jeremiah 11:19 — But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with…
• Jeremiah 18:11 — Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise…
• Jeremiah 18:18 — Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from…
• Jeremiah 29:11 — For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
• Jeremiah 36:3 — It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive…
• Micah 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Zechariah 7:10 — And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
• Malachi 3:16 — Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.