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H2803

H2803 — חָשַׁב

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewchashabverbOccurrences: 124TWOT: 767

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H2803
Word:חָשַׁב
Part of Speech:verb
Etymology:a primitive root
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:124
Transliteration:chashab
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:khaw-shab'
Meaning:1. (properly) to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate 2. (figuratively) to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense) 3. hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
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.

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חָשַׁב verb think, account (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חֲשַׁב, [untranscribed source text 2025]; Arabic [untranscribed source text 2026]; Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 2027] id.; Phoenician noun חשב meaning dubious see CISi. 86) —

Qal Perfect ׳ ח Isa 33:8 + 9 t.; חָשַׁבְתָּה 2Sam 14:13 etc.; Imperfect יַחְשֹׁב Isa 10:7 + 4 t.; יַחֲשָׁבֿ 2Sam 19:20; Ps 40:18 suffix יַחְשְׁבֵנִי Job 19:11; Job 33:10 plural יַחְשְׁבוּ Ps 41:8; Dan 11:25 יַחְשֹׁ֑בוּ Isa 13:17 יַחֲשֹׁבוּן Ps 35:20 נַחְשְׁבָה Jer 18:18, etc. + 9 t. Imperfect;Infinitive construct לַחְשֹׁב Exod 31:4 + 3 t.; Participle חשֵׁב Exod 26:1 + 15 t., חוֺשֵׁב 2Chr 26:15 חשְׁבִים Neh 6:2 + 3 t., חשְׁבֵי Mic 2:1 + 3 t.; —
I. of man:
1. think, account לבבו לא כן יחשׁב Isa 10:7 not so thinketh his mind; חשׁבי שׁמוֺ Mal 3:16 those thinking of his name; followed by 2 accusative חשׁבנהו נגוע Isa 53:4 we thought him stricken; elsewhere with accusative + לְ Gen 38:15 ( J ), 1Sam 1:13 ; Job 19:15; Job 35:2; Job 41:24 so, figurative, of crocodile Job 41:19 he reckoneth iron as straw.
2. devise, plan, mean, with accusative מַחֲשֶׁבֶת רָעָה Ezek 38:10 , רעה Ps 35:4; Ps 140:3 ; Zech 7:10 ; Zech 8:17 , תַּהְפֻּכ֑וֺת Prov 16:30 , מְזִמּוֺת Ps 10:2; Ps 21:12 , דִּבְרֵי מִרְמוֺת Ps 35:20 , אָוֶן Mic 2:1; Ezek 11:2; Ps 36:5, הַוּוֺת Ps 52:4 רע(ה) על ׳ ח devise evil against Gen 50:20 ( E ), Jer 48:2 ; Nah 1:11 , רעה לְ ׳ ח Ps 41:8, מַחֲשֶׁבֶת על ׳ ח Jer 11:19 ; Jer 18:18 ; Jer 49:30 ; Dan 11:25 ; Esth 8:3; Esth 9:25 , כזאת על ׳ ח 2Sam 14:13 with infinitive 1Sam 18:25; Jer 18:8; Jer 23:27; Job 6:26; Neh 6:2; Neh 6:6; Esth 9:24; Ps 140:5 with לבלתי + Imperfect 2Sam 14:14 (where, however, Ew reads חוֺבֵ for וחשׁב compare We Dr; in this case לבלתי carries on לֹא יִשָּׂא ).
3. charge, impute ׳ עון ל ׳ ח, 2Sam 19:20 impute iniquity to.
4. esteem, value, regard, silver Isa 13:17, a man Isa 33:8, the servant of ׳ י Isa 53:3.
5. invent ingenious and artistic things, להם כלי שׁיר ׳ ח Amos 6:5 invent for themselves instruments of music; (כל) מחשׁבת ׳ ח invent cunning work (of artistic devices in construction of tabernacle) Exod 31:4; Exod 35:32 ; Exod 35:35 (all P ), so 2Chr 2:13 מַעֲשֵׂה חשֵׁב work of the cunning (ingenious, inventive) workman (of artistic devices in weaving; see especially VB and Di) Exod 26:1; Exod 26:31; Exod 28:6; Exod 28:15; Exod 36:8; Exod 36:35 ; Exod 39:3 ; Exod 39:8 (all P ); מַחֲשֶׁבֶת חוֺשֵׁב 2Chr 26:15 inventions of inventive men (of engines of war); חָרָשׁ וְחשֵׁב craftsman and inventive workman (in construction of tabernacle, see above) Exod 35:35 ; Exod 38:23 ( P ).
II. of God:
1. think, with accusative pers + לְ indirect object account one לאויב, for an enemy Job 13:24 ; Job 33:10 לוֺ כצריו ׳ ח Job 19:11 he accounted me unto him as his adversaries.
2. devise, plan, mean, with accusative + ל indirect object לטבה for good Gen 50:20 ( E ); with ל person לִי devise for me Ps 40:18 accusative of thing + עַל, devise something against a person Mic 2:3; Jer 18:11 towards one Jer 29:11, with אל against Jer 49:20; Jer 50:45 followed by infinitive Jer 26:3 ; Jer 36:3 ; Lam 2:8 .
3. impute, reckon, with accusative of thing + ל person, the habit of believing in ׳ י he reckoned to Abram as righteousness Gen 15:6 ( J E ; compare Niph`al 3); not impute iniquity to one Ps 32:2.
Niph`al Perfect נֶחְשַׁב Num 18:27 ; Num 18:30, נֶחְשַׁבְתִּי Ps 88:5 etc. + 10 t. Perfect;Imperfect יֵחָשֵׁב Lev 7:18 + 7 t., etc., + 6 t. Imperfect;Participle נֶחְשָׁב Isa 2:22 ; 1Kgs 10:21; 2Chr 9:20: —
1. be accounted, thought, esteemed, with כְּ as Hos 8:12 ; Isa 5:28; Isa 29:16; Isa 40:15; Ps 44:23; Job 18:3 ; Job 41:21 with לְ Isa 29:17 = Isa 32:15, Lam 4:2 עִם with, among Ps 88:5 , בַּמֶּה Isa 2:22 at what (value) ? (see probably interpolated; omitted by ᵐ5 ); with accusative Deut 2:11; Deut 2:20; Prov 17:28; Neh 13:13 נָכְרִיּוֺת נֶחְשַׁבְנוּ לוֺ Gen 31:13 ( E ; ᵐ5 Sam ׳ כְּנֶח) Isa 40:17.
2. be computed, reckoned, with לְ Josh 13:3 ( D ), עַל Lev 25:31 ( P ), 2Sam 4:2: absolute כסף was not counted (so plentiful was it) 1Kgs 10:21 = 2Chr 9:20; 2Kgs 22:7.
3. be imputed to any one, with לְ Lev 7:18 ; Num 18:27; Num 18:30 (all P ), Lev 17:4 ( H ) Prov 27:14 the interposition of Phinehas לוֺ לצדקה ׳ נח Ps 106:31 was imputed to him for righteousness (compare Qal II 3).
Pi`el Perfect 3 masculine singular חִשַּׁב Lev 25:27 + 4 t.; feminine חִשְּׁבָה Jonah 1:4 1 singular חִשַּׁבְתִּי Ps 77:6; Ps 119:59 Imperfect יְחַשֵּׁב Prov 16:9; Dan 11:24, תְּחַשְּׁבוּן Nah 1:9, etc., + 4 t. Imperfect;Participle מְחַשֵּׁב Prov 24:8: —
1. think upon, consider, be mindful of, with accusative Ps 77:6 ; Ps 119:59, (מה) בֶּןאֱֿנוֺשׁ וַתְּחַשְּׁבֵהוּ Ps 144:3 what (is) man's son, and thou thinkest upon him (|| תֵּדָעֵהוּ).
2. think to do, devise, plan, with accusative Prov 16:9, אֶל of persons against whom Hos 7:15; Nah 1:9, עַל Dan 11:24 with infinitive Ps 73:16; Prov 24:8 so of inanimate object הָאֳנִיָּה חִשְּׁבָה לְהִשָּׁבֵר Jonah 1:4 the ship was about to (minded to) be broken up .
3. count, reckon, the years since a sale of land Lev 25:27 ( H ); with לְ person Lev 25:52 ( H ), Lev 27:18; Lev 27:23 ( P ); with עִם Lev 25:50 ( P ); with אֶת 2Kgs 12:16.
Hithpa`el Imperfect בַּגּוֺיִם לֹא יִתְחַשָּׁ֑ב Num 23:9 ( J E ) among the nations it shall not reckon itself.


BDB9545

[חֲשַׁב] verb think, account (see Biblical Hebrew); —

Pe`al Participle passive plural כְּלָה חֲשִׁיבִון Dan 4:32 like those not accounted of, of no account, Bev Dr.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

חֶשב (ghah-shav')

Genesis 50:90

EHCC: ye thought evil againstme; (but) God meaat

2 Samuel 14:13

KJV: 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 which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
EHCC: Wherefore then Aast thou thought

Esther 8:3

KJV: 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 Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.and besought…: Heb. and she wept, and besought him
EHCC: his device that he had devised

Esther 9:24

KJV: 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, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;consume: Heb. crush
EHCC: had devised against the Jews

Job 35:9

KJV: By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
EHCC: TRinkest thou this to be right,

Psalms 10:2

KJV: The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.The wicked…: Heb. In the pride of the wicked he doth persecute
EHCC: devices that they have imagined.

Psalms 21:11

KJV: For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
EHCC: (12). they imagined a mischievous

Psalms 140:2

KJV: Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
EHCC: (3). Which imagine mischiefe

Psalms 58:3

KJV: The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.as soon…: Heb. from the belly
EHCC: we esteemed him not.

Jeremiah 11:19

KJV: 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 destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.the tree…: Heb. the stalk with his bread
EHCC: 1 knew not that they kad devised

Jeremiah 18:8

KJV: 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.
EHCC: the evil that J thought to do

Jeremiah 48:2

KJV: 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 thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.be cut…: or, be brought to silencepursue…: Heb. go after thee
EHCC: in Heshbon they have =

Jeremiah 50:45

KJV: 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 the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
EHCC: purposes, that he hath

Lamentations 2:8

KJV: 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 destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.destroying: Heb. swallowing up
EHCC: The Lord hath to destroy

Ezekiel 38:10

KJV: 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 thought:think…: or, conceive a mischievous purpose
EHCC: and thow shalt think an evil thought:

Exodus 31:4

KJV: To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
EHCC: To devise cunning works,

Exodus 35:32

KJV: And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
EHCC: And to devise curious works,

2 Chronicles 2:14

KJV: 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 stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
EHCC: (18).and to sind out every device

Proverbs 16:30

KJV: He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
EHCC: shutteth his eyes to devise froward things:

Genesis 15:6

KJV: And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
EHCC: and he counted it to him .

Genesis 38:15

KJV: When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
EHCC: he (lit. and he) thought her to (be) an |

Job 6:26

KJV: Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
EHCC: Do ye imagine to Teprove words, |

Job 33:10

KJV: Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
EHCC: he counteth me for his enemy, |

Psalms 32:2

KJV: Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
EHCC: whom the Lord imputeth sot iniquity,

Psalms 85:20

EHCC: but they devise deceitful matters

Psalms 36:4

KJV: He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.mischief: or, vanity
EHCC: (5). He deviseth mischief upon his bed ;

Psalms 40:17

KJV: 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.
EHCC: (18). the Lord thinketh upon me: |

Psalms 41:8

KJV: An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.An…: Heb. A thing of Belial
EHCC: against me do they devise my hurt.

Isaiah 10:7

KJV: 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.
EHCC: neither his heart think so ; |

Isaiah 18:17

EHCC: which shail not regard silver ; .

Jeremiah 18:18

KJV: 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, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.with…: or, for the tongue
EHCC: Come, and let us devise devices .

Daniel 11:25

KJV: 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 up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.
EHCC: they shall forecast devices |

Daniel 28:6

EHCC: fine twined linen, with cuwziag work. |

Daniel 35:35

EHCC: and of the cunning workman,

Daniel 36:8

EHCC: cherubims of cunning work be them.

Daniel 38:23

EHCC: and a cunning workman,

Daniel 89:8

EHCC: in the fine linen, (with) cunning work.

2 Chronicles 26:15

KJV: 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 withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.spread: Heb. went forth
EHCC: engines, invented by cursing men, .

Nehemiah 6:9

KJV: For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
EHCC: But they thought to do me mischief.

Psalms 35:4

KJV: 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.
EHCC: confusion that devise my burt, .

Jeremiah 18:11

KJV: 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 against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
EHCC: and devise ₪ device against you: (lit. avd!

Jeremiah 23:27

KJV: 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 forgotten my name for Baal.
EHCC: Which think to cause my poople .

Jeremiah 26:3

KJV: 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 of the evil of their doings.
EHCC: repent me of the evil, which 1 perrpose

Jeremiah 36:3

KJV: 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; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
EHCC: the evil which 1 purpose

Micah 2:1

KJV: 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 their hand.
EHCC: Woe to them that devise iniquity,

Malachi 3:16

KJV: 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 before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
EHCC: and that thought upon his name,

Job 18:3

KJV: Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
EHCC: Wherefore are we counted as beasts,

Lamentations 4:2

KJV: The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
EHCC: how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,

Hosea 8:12

KJV: I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
EHCC: they were counted as a strange thing.

Leviticus 7:18

KJV: 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 it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
EHCC: neither shall it be imputed

Deuteronomy 2:11

KJV: Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
EHCC: Which also were ceeounted giants,

2 Kings 22:7

KJV: Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
EHCC: there was no reckoning made

Psalms 106:3

KJV: Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
EHCC: [ . And that sas counted unto him

1 Kings 10:21

KJV: 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 were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.none…: or, there was no silver in them
EHCC: was nothing accownted

2 Chronicles 9:20

KJV: 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: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.pure: Heb. shut upnone were of silver: or, there was no silver in them
EHCC: if was (not) any thing accounted

Isaiah 2:22

KJV: Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
EHCC: wherein is he to be accounted of?

Leviticus 25:27

KJV: 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 possession.
EHCC: Then let him count the years

Jonah 1:4

KJV: 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.sent out: Heb. cast forthwas like…: Heb. thought to be broken
EHCC: 80 See he Leb eee) ae toe Eke

2 Kings 12:15

KJV: Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
EHCC: (16). reckoned not with the men,

Proverbs 16:9

KJV: A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
EHCC: A man’s heart deviseth his way:

Daniel 11:94

EHCC: he shall forecast his devices (marg. think

Hosea 7:15

KJV: Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.have…: or, chastened
EHCC: yet do they imagine mischief
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