Strong's #4209: mzimmah (pronounced mez-im-maw')

from 2161; a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity):--(wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mezimmâh

1) purpose, discretion, device, plot

1a) purpose

1b) discretion

1c) devices (evil)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H2161

Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

 

Job 21:27: "Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against"
Job 42:2: "thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from"
Psalms 10:2: "doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined."
Psalms 10:4: "after God: God is not in all his thoughts."
Psalms 21:11: "evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able"
Psalms 37:7: "for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass."
Psalms 139:20: "For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain."
Proverbs 1:4: "to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion."
Proverbs 2:11: " Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep"
Proverbs 3:21: "from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:"
Proverbs 5:2: "That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge."
Proverbs 8:12: "with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions."
Proverbs 12:2: "favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn."
Proverbs 14:17: "dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated."
Proverbs 24:8: "He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person."
Jeremiah 11:15: "hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed"
Jeremiah 23:20: "he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider"
Jeremiah 30:24: "he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider"
Jeremiah 51:11: "of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because"