Strong's Hebrew · H2803
H2803 châshab
חָשַׁב
khaw-shab'
to devise
Looking for Greek G2803 Klaudía? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H2803. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
châshab appears 124 times in Scripture, including Genesis 15:6 and Exodus 26:1. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
In the King James Version
(make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 124 times in Scripture
“As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.”
“instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle—that man shall incur bloodguilt. He has shed blood and must be cut off from among his people.”
“Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
“You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.”
““You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.”
“Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.”
“Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.”
“They are to make the ephod of finely spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn.”
“to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
