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Strong H28034 sensesחָשַׁב

to devise: devise · to devise: count · to devise: think · to devise: design

Transliteration
châshab
Pronunciation
khaw-shab'

The 4 senses of Strong H2803

The lexicon tells 4 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H2803 appears in 122 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. to devise: deviseH2803I: devise/plot/plan43 verses · 17 books
  2. to devise: countH2803H: count/regard_as34 verses · 15 books
  3. to devise: thinkH2803J: think/imagine26 verses · 8 books
  4. to devise: designH2803G: design/skillful19 verses · 6 books

General definition

A primitive root; properly to plait or {interpenetrate} that {is} (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to {think} regard 6
{value} compute: - (make) account ({of}) {conceive} {consider} {count} cunning ({man} {work} {workman}) {devise} {esteem} find {out} {forecast} {hold} {imagine} {impute} {invent} be {like} {mean} {purpose} reckon (-ing be {made}) {regard} think.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • count20
  • devise18
  • think16
  • cunning8
  • imagine8
  • reckon7
  • account6
  • purpose6
  • esteem5
  • deviseth4
  • counteth2
  • forecast2

First verses

  1. Genesis 15:6
    And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
  2. Genesis 31:15
    Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
  3. Genesis 38:15
    When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
  4. Genesis 50:20
    But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
  5. Exodus 26:1
    Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
  6. Exodus 26:31
    And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
  7. Exodus 28:6
    And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
  8. Exodus 28:15
    And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
  9. Exodus 31:4
    To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
  10. Exodus 35:32
    And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
  11. Exodus 35:35
    Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
  12. Exodus 36:8
    And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
  13. Exodus 36:35
    And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
  14. Exodus 38:23
    And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
  15. Exodus 39:3
    And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
  16. Exodus 39:8
    And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
  17. Leviticus 7:18
    And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
  18. Leviticus 17:4
    And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
  19. Leviticus 25:27
    Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
  20. Leviticus 25:31
    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.