Strong's #2161: zamam (pronounced zaw-mam')
a primitive root; to plan, usually in a bad sense:--consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
zâmam
1) to have a thought, devise, plan, consider, purpose
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to consider, fix thought upon
1a2) to purpose, devise
1a3) to plot (of evil intent)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 13 times:
Genesis 11:6: "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
Deuteronomy 19:19: "Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among"
Psalms 17:3: "thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress."
Psalms 31:13: "was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life."
Psalms 37:12: "The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth."
Proverbs 30:32: "thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth."
Proverbs 31:16: " She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard."
Jeremiah 4:28: "above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent,"
Jeremiah 51:12: "for the LORD hath both devised and that which"
Lamentations 2:17: "The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded"
Zechariah 1:6: "Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so"
Zechariah 8:14: "the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,"
Zechariah 8:15: "So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem"