# מַחֲשָׁבָה (machashavah) Israeli respelling: ma-cha-sha-vah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H4284. 52 Old Testament occurrences. a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice) King James renderings: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/machashavah-h4284 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/6/5) — And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil contin… - [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 35:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/35/33) — And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. - [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,… - [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… - [1 Chronicles 28:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/28/9) — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searche… - [1 Chronicles 29:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/18) — O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people,… - [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 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… - [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 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/8/5) — And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in hi… - [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 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/12) — He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. - [Job 21:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/27) — Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. - [Psalms 33:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/33/10) — The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. - [Psalms 33:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/33/11) — The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. - [Psalms 40:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/5) — Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in ord… - [Psalms 56:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/56/5) — Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. - [Psalms 92:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/92/5) — O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. - [Psalms 94:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/11) — The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. - [Proverbs 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/18) — An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, - [Proverbs 12:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/5) — The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. - [Proverbs 15:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/22) — Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. - [Proverbs 15:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/26) — The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words. - [Proverbs 16:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/3) — Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - [Proverbs 19:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/21) — There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand. - [Proverbs 20:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/18) — Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. - [Proverbs 21:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/5) — The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. - [Isaiah 55:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/55/7) — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; an… - [Isaiah 55:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/55/8) — For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. - [Isaiah 55:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/55/9) — For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. - [Isaiah 59:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/7) — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in… - [Isaiah 65:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/2) — I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; - [Isaiah 66:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/18) — For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. - [Jeremiah 4:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/14) — O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? - [Jeremiah 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/19) — Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words,… - [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 18:11](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 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/18/12) — And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. - [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 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 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… - [Jeremiah 51:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/29) — And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a deso… - [Lamentations 3:60](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/60) — Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. - [Lamentations 3:61](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/61) — Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; - [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… - [Micah 4:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/4/12) — But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.