# חָשַׁב (chashav)

Israeli respelling: cha-shav. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2803. 122 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James 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.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chashav-h2803

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 15:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/15/6) — And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
- [Genesis 31:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/15) — Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
- [Genesis 38:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/15) — When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
- [Genesis 50:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/20) — But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
- [Exodus 26:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/1) — Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunnin…
- [Exodus 26:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/31) — And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
- [Exodus 28:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/28/6) — And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
- [Exodus 28:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/28/15) — And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of…
- [Exodus 31:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/31/4) — To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
- [Exodus 35:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/35/32) — And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
- [Exodus 35:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/35/35) — Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer,…
- [Exodus 36:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/36/8) — And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple,…
- [Exodus 36:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/36/35) — And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
- [Exodus 38:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/38/23) — And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in pur…
- [Exodus 39:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/39/3) — And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in t…
- [Exodus 39:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/39/8) — And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- [Leviticus 7:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/7/18) — And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall i…
- [Leviticus 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/17/4) — And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LO…
- [Leviticus 25:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/27) — Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his pos…
- [Leviticus 25:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/31) — But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and…
- [Leviticus 25:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/50) — And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall…
- [Leviticus 25:52](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/52) — And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him aga…
- [Leviticus 27:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/18) — But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unt…
- [Leviticus 27:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/27/23) — Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in…
- [Numbers 18:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/27) — And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepr…
- [Numbers 18:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/18/30) — Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase…
- [Numbers 23:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/23/9) — For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among…
- [Deuteronomy 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/11) — Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
- [Deuteronomy 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/20) — (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
- [Joshua 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/3) — From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistin…
- [1 Samuel 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/1/13) — Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
- [1 Samuel 18:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/18/25) — And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of t…
- [2 Samuel 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/4/2) — And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmo…
- [2 Samuel 14:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/13) — And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one whic…
- [2 Samuel 14:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/14/14) — For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet do…
- [2 Samuel 19:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/19) — And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day tha…
- [1 Kings 10:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/10/21) — And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none wer…
- [2 Kings 12:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/12/15) — Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
- [2 Kings 22:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/22/7) — Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
- [2 Chronicles 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/14) — The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in…
- [2 Chronicles 9:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/9/20) — And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: non…
- [2 Chronicles 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/15) — And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones with…
- [Nehemiah 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/2) — That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they though…
- [Nehemiah 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/6) — Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou bui…
- [Nehemiah 13:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/13) — And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Ha…
- [Esther 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/8/3) — And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Ag…
- [Esther 9:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/24) — Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur…
- [Esther 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/25) — But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon…
- [Job 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/26) — Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
- [Job 13:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/24) — Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
- [Job 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/18/3) — Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
- [Job 19:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/11) — He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
- [Job 19:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/15) — They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
- [Job 33:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/33/10) — Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
- [Job 35:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/35/2) — Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
- [Job 41:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/27) — He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
- [Job 41:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/29) — Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
- [Job 41:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/32) — He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
- [Psalms 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/2) — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- [Psalms 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/21/11) — For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
- [Psalms 32:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/32/2) — Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
- [Psalms 35:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/4) — Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
- [Psalms 35:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/20) — For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
- [Psalms 36:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/4) — He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
- [Psalms 40:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/17) — But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
- [Psalms 41:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/41/7) — All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
- [Psalms 44:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/22) — Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- [Psalms 52:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/52/2) — Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- [Psalms 73:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/16) — When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
- [Psalms 77:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/77/5) — I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
- [Psalms 88:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/4) — I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
- [Psalms 106:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/31) — And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
- [Psalms 119:59](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/59) — I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
- [Psalms 140:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/2) — Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
- [Psalms 140:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/4) — Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
- [Psalms 144:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/3) — LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
- [Proverbs 16:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/9) — A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
- [Proverbs 16:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/30) — He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
- [Proverbs 17:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/28) — Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
- [Proverbs 24:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/8) — He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
- [Proverbs 27:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/14) — He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
- [Isaiah 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/22) — Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
- [Isaiah 5:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/28) — Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
- [Isaiah 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/7) — Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
- [Isaiah 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/17) — Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
- [Isaiah 29:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/16) — Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me no…
- [Isaiah 29:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/17) — Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
- [Isaiah 32:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/15) — Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
- [Isaiah 33:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/8) — The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- [Isaiah 40:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/15) — Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very l…
- [Isaiah 40:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/17) — All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
- [Isaiah 53:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/3) — He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised,…
- [Isaiah 53:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/4) — Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
- [Jeremiah 11:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 de…
- [Jeremiah 18:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/8) — If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
- [Jeremiah 18:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 agai…
- [Jeremiah 18:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,…
- [Jeremiah 23:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/27) — Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotte…
- [Jeremiah 26:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/26/3) — If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because…
- [Jeremiah 29:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Jeremiah 36:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/36/3) — It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way;…
- [Jeremiah 48:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/2) — There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also…
- [Jeremiah 49:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 49:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 50:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Lamentations 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/8) — The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destr…
- [Lamentations 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/2) — The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
- [Ezekiel 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/11/2) — Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
- [Ezekiel 38:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/10) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil th…
- [Daniel 11:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/24) — He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his father…
- [Daniel 11:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/25) — And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred…
- [Hosea 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/7/15) — Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
- [Hosea 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/8/12) — I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
- [Amos 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/5) — That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
- [Jonah 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/1/4) — But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
- [Micah 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/1) — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of…
- [Micah 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/3) — Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye…
- [Nahum 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/1/9) — What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
- [Nahum 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/1/11) — There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
- [Zechariah 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/7/10) — And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your hea…
- [Zechariah 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/8/17) — And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith…
- [Malachi 3:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/16) — Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written befo…