מְזִמָּה mezimmah
Hebrew word for “plot” · Strong’s H4209 · used 19 times in 19 verses
Meaning
1) purpose, discretion, device, plot; 1a) purpose; 1b) discretion; 1c) devices (evil)
How it is translated
Glosses given for mezimmah in context, with how often each is used:
- discretion 5
- schemes 2
- purpose 2
- plots 2
- evil devices 2
- purposes 2
- thoughts 1
- scheme 1
- wickedness 1
- plan 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Psalms 10 (2), Job 21 (1), Job 42 (1), Psalms 21 (1), Psalms 37 (1), Psalms 139 (1), Proverbs 1 (1), Proverbs 2 (1), Proverbs 3 (1), Proverbs 5 (1)
Forms
- מזמות 8
- מזמה 3
- ומזמה 2
- ומזמות 1
- במזמות 1
- מזמותיו 1
- למזמה 1
- המזמתה 1
- מזמתו 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with mezimmah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אַף aph “face” 4
- נָצַר natsar “to watch” 3
- עׇרְמָה ormah “craftiness” 2
- דַּעַת daat “knowledge” 3
- חָשַׁב chashav “to devise” 3
- בַּל bal “not” 2
- אַחֲרִית acharit “end” 2
- בִּין bin “to understand” 2
- יָכֹל yakhol “be able” 2
- רָשָׁע rasah “wicked” 2
- שָׁמַר shamar “to keep” 2
- הָ ha “her” 2
Key verses
The verses using mezimmah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Job 21:27 — Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- Job 42:2 — I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
- Psalms 10:2 — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Psalms 10:4 — The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek God is not in all his thoughts.
- Psalms 21:11 — For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
- Psalms 37:7 — Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
- Proverbs 1:4 — To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
- Proverbs 3:21 — My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
- Jeremiah 11:15 — What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou…
- Jeremiah 23:20 — The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it…
- Jeremiah 30:24 — The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall…
- Jeremiah 51:11 — Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it;…
See all 19 verses in the Word Atlas
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.