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H4284Hebrew

מַחֲשָׁבָה מַחֲשֶׁבֶת

Definition and meaning

machashabah (makh-ash-aw-baw') (or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh'-beth}) n-f. 1. a contrivance 2. (concretely) a texture, machine 3. (abstractly) intention, plan 4. (hence, negatively) a plot 5. (hence, positively) advice [from H2803] KJV: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought. Root(s): H2803

Tagged KJV passages

52 matching verses - 56.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Proverbs 15:26

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Matched English: thoughts
Proverbs 16:3

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Matched English: thoughts
Proverbs 19:21

There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

Matched English: devices
Proverbs 20:18

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

Matched English: purpose
Proverbs 21:5

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

Matched English: thoughts
Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Matched English: thoughts
Isaiah 55:8

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Matched English: thoughts, thoughts
Isaiah 55:9

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Matched English: thoughts, thoughts
Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Matched English: thoughts, thoughts
Isaiah 65:2

I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

Matched English: thoughts
Isaiah 66:18

For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

Matched English: thoughts
Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

Matched English: thoughts
Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

Matched English: thoughts
Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Matched English: devices
Jeremiah 18:11

Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

Matched English: device
Jeremiah 18:12

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

Matched English: devices
Jeremiah 18:18

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Matched English: devices
Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Matched English: thoughts, thoughts
Jeremiah 49:20

Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

Matched English: purposes
Jeremiah 49:30

Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.

Matched English: purpose
Jeremiah 50:45

Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

Matched English: purposes
Jeremiah 51:29

And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

Matched English: purpose
Lamentations 3:60

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

Matched English: imaginations
Lamentations 3:61

Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

Matched English: imaginations