Forecast

Forecast - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

FOREC'AST, v.t.

1. To foresee; to provide against.

It is wisdom to forecast consequences.

2. To scheme; to plan before execution.

He shall forecast his devices against the strong holds. Dan 11.

3. To adjust; contrive or appoint beforehand

The time so well forecast.

FOREC'AST, v.i. To form a scheme previously; to contrive beforehand.

Forecasting how his foe he might annoy.

FO'REC'AST, n. Previous contrivance; foresight, or the antecedent determination proceeding from it; as a man of little forecast.

for-kast'; (vb.) (chashabh):

To forecast is both to plan or scheme beforehand and to consider or see beforehand. It is in the first sense that it is used in Da 11:24,25 (the King James Version) as the translation of chashabh, "to think," "meditate," "devise," "plot," "He shall forecast his devices (The King James Version, margin "Hebrew think his thoughts") against the strongholds"; "They shall forecast devices against him," the Revised Version (British and American) "devise his devices"; compare Na 1:9, "What do ye devise against Yahweh?" In the second sense, the word occurs in The Wisdom of Solomon 17:11 the Revised Version (British and American), "Wickedness .... always forecasteth the worst lot" (proeilephen), margin "Most authorities read hath added" (proseilephen).

W. L. Walker