חָשַׁב châshab

Meaning

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;

Where it is used

• Psalms 32:2 Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
• Psalms 35:4 May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.
• Psalms 35:20 For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.
• Psalms 36:4 Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
• Psalms 40:17 But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.
• Psalms 41:7 All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:
• Psalms 44:22 Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
• Psalms 52:2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
• Psalms 73:16 When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
• Psalms 77:5 I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.
• Psalms 88:4 I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
• Psalms 106:31 It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
• Psalms 119:59 I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
• Psalms 140:2 who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.
• Psalms 140:4 Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
• Psalms 144:3 O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
• Proverbs 16:9 A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
• Proverbs 16:30 He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.
• Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool is considered wise if he keeps silent, and discerning when he holds his tongue.
• Proverbs 24:8 He who plots evil will be called a schemer.
• Proverbs 27:14 If one blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted to him as a curse.
• Isaiah 2:22 Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
• Isaiah 5:28 Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
• Isaiah 10:7 But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
• Isaiah 13:17 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
• Isaiah 29:16 You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
• Isaiah 29:17 In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?
• Isaiah 32:15 until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
• Isaiah 33:8 The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
• Isaiah 40:15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
• Isaiah 40:17 All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
• Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
• Isaiah 53:4 Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
• Jeremiah 11:19 For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
• Jeremiah 18:8 But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
• Jeremiah 18:11 Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
• Jeremiah 18:18 Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
• Jeremiah 23:27 They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.
• Jeremiah 26:3 Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.
• Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
• Jeremiah 36:3 Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
• Jeremiah 48:2 There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
• Jeremiah 49:20 Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
• Jeremiah 49:30 Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.
• Jeremiah 50:45 Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
• Lamentations 2:8 The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
• Lamentations 4:2 How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
• Ezekiel 11:2 And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.
• Ezekiel 38:10 This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
• Daniel 11:24 In a time of peace, he will invade the richest provinces and do what his fathers and forefathers never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will plot against the strongholds—but only for a time.
• Daniel 11:25 And with a large army he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South, who will mobilize a very large and powerful army but will not withstand the plots devised against him.
• Hosea 7:15 Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
• Hosea 8:12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
• Amos 6:5 You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
• Jonah 1:4 Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.
• Micah 2:1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
• Micah 2:3 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
• Nahum 1:9 Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
• Nahum 1:11 From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
• Zechariah 7:10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’