חָשַׁב
châshab · khaw-shab'
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
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
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
- 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
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (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.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › to consume, to destroy › the house, what is within
To separate and protect that works to consume, to destroy of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָשַׁב 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
124 occurrences · 124 OT · 0 NT · 102 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of cunning4 · 10%
- with cunning3 · 8%
- think2 · 5%
- to devise2 · 5%
- deviseth2 · 5%
- that devise2 · 5%
- shall reckon2 · 5%
- shall be esteemed2 · 5%
- thought2 · 5%
- which i purpose2 · 5%
- that he hath purposed2 · 5%
- he thought1 · 3%
- them shall be counted1 · 3%
- but as for you, ye thought1 · 3%
- then let him count1 · 3%
- are we not counted1 · 3%
- neither shall it be imputed1 · 3%
- and a cunning workman1 · 3%
- he it of cunning1 · 3%
- and of those that devise1 · 3%
- and of the cunning workman1 · 3%
- shall be imputed1 · 3%
- and to devise1 · 3%
- meant it1 · 3%
- and he counted1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
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.