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Strong H2803H2803Gחָשַׁב

to devise: design

One of the 4 senses of Strong H2803

Transliteration
châshab
Pronunciation
khaw-shab'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

: design/skillful
1) to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to think, account
1a2) to plan, devise, mean
1a3) to charge, impute, reckon
1a4) to esteem, value, regard
1a5) to invent
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be accounted, be thought, be esteemed
1b2) to be computed, be reckoned
1b3) to be imputed
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to think upon, consider, be mindful of
1c2) to think to do, devise, plan
1c3) to count, reckon
1d) (Hithpael) to be considered

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

Strong H2803G appears in 19 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • cunning8
  • devise7
  • workman2
  • find1
  • invent1
  • man1

First verses

  1. 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.
  2. 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:
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Exodus 31:4
    To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
  6. Exodus 35:32
    And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 2 Samuel 14:14
    For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
  14. 2 Chronicles 2:14
    The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
  15. 2 Chronicles 26:15
    And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
  16. Esther 8:3
    And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
  17. Esther 9:25
    But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
  18. Psalms 35:20
    For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
  19. Amos 6:5
    That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
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