חָשַׁב
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
Strong’s Definition
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
Etymology & Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV Usage
(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.
Detailed Definition
From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.
- 1.to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count
- 2.(qal)
- 3.(niphal)
- 4.(piel)
- 5.(hithpael) to be considered
Scholarly Notes
Transliteration: châshab; Pronunciation: khaw-shab'