Strong's #4284: machashabah (pronounced makh-ash-aw-baw')
or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh'-beth}; from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice):--cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ / ׁ
machăshâbâh / machăshebeth
1) thought, device
1a) thought
1b) device, plan, purpose
1c) invention
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H2803
Usage:
This word is used 56 times:
Genesis 6:5: "in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Exodus 31:4: "To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,"
Exodus 35:32: "And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,"
Exodus 35:33: "of wood, to make any manner of cunning work."
Exodus 35:35: "even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work."
2 Samuel 14:14: "doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from"
1 Chronicles 28:9: "and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if"
1 Chronicles 29:18: "this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart"
2 Chronicles 2:14: "of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men,"
2 Chronicles 26:15: "And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers"
Esther 8:3: "the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews."
Esther 8:5: "let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha"
Esther 9:25: "by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews,"
Job 5:12: "He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise."
Job 21:27: "Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against"
Psalms 33:10: "bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect."
Psalms 33:11: "of the LORD standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations."
Psalms 40:5: "are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to usward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee:"
Psalms 56:5: "they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil."
Psalms 92:5: "how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep."
Psalms 94:11: "The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity."
Proverbs 6:18: "A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,"
Proverbs 12:5: " The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit."
Proverbs 15:22: "Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors they are established."
Proverbs 15:26: " The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words."
Proverbs 16:3: "thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established."
Proverbs 19:21: "There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand."
Proverbs 20:18: " Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war."
Proverbs 21:5: " The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want."
Isaiah 55:7: "his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy"
Isaiah 55:8: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith"
Isaiah 55:8: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith"
Isaiah 55:9: "than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
Isaiah 55:9: "so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
Isaiah 59:7: "to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction"
Isaiah 59:7: "innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths."
Isaiah 65:2: "that was not good, after their own thoughts;"
Isaiah 66:18: "For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations"
Jeremiah 4:14: "that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within"
Jeremiah 6:19: "this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto"
Jeremiah 11:19: "not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit"
Jeremiah 18:11: "evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one"
Jeremiah 18:12: "but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil"
Jeremiah 18:18: "Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law"
Jeremiah 29:11: "I know the thoughts that I think toward"
Jeremiah 29:11: "toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give"
Jeremiah 49:20: "he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants"
Jeremiah 49:30: "counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against"
Jeremiah 50:45: "he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land"
Jeremiah 51:29: "shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,"
