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:
Lamentations 3:60: "all their vengeance and all their imaginations"
Lamentations 3:61: "their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against"
Ezekiel 38:10: "thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:"
Daniel 11:24: "and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strongholds, even for a time."
Daniel 11:25: "but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against"
Micah 4:12: "But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel:"
