זִמָּה
zimmâh · zim-maw'
a plan, especially a bad one
Lexicon
Derivation: or זַמָּה; from H2161 (זָמַם);
a plan, especially a bad one
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
To cut, to sustain of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זִמָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
29 occurrences · 29 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- lewdness3 · 10%
- it is wickedness2 · 7%
- the lewdness2 · 7%
- of wickedness1 · 3%
- both he and they; that there be no wickedness1 · 3%
- my purposes1 · 3%
- for this is an heinous crime1 · 3%
- is mischief1 · 3%
- after mischief1 · 3%
- mischief1 · 3%
- it with a wicked mind1 · 3%
- the thought1 · 3%
- wicked devices1 · 3%
- of thy lewd1 · 3%
- this lewdness1 · 3%
- thy lewdness1 · 3%
- hath lewdly1 · 3%
- thus will i make thy lewdness1 · 3%
- both thy lewdness1 · 3%
- thou also thy lewdness1 · 3%
- the lewd1 · 3%
- thus will i cause lewdness1 · 3%
- after your lewdness1 · 3%
- your lewdness1 · 3%
- is lewdness1 · 3%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.