zamam · plan, purpose

What it means

zamam (זָמַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plan, purpose”.

Devise; often in a bad sense.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To make up one's mind.
2. To intend harm against someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• purposed ×5
• he planned ×2
• I have resolved ×1
• She considers ×1
• plots ×1
• they plan ×1
• they plot ×1
• you have schemed ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 11:6

  And YHWH said, “Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they have begun to do; and now nothing that they plan to do will be out of reach for them.

• Deuteronomy 19:19

  then you shall do to him as he planned to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Psalms 17:3

  You have tested my heart, you have inspected it by night, you have refined me; you will find nothing; I have resolved: my mouth will not overstep.

• Psalms 31:13

  For I have heard the whispering of many, terror on every side, when they conspire together against me; they plot to take my soul.

• Psalms 37:12

  The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes at him his teeth.

• Proverbs 30:32

  If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have schemed, put your hand to your mouth.

• Proverbs 31:16

  She considers a field and takes it; from the fruit of her palms she plants a vineyard.

• Jeremiah 4:28

  For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will grow dark, because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it.”

• Jeremiah 51:12

  Against the walls of Babylon lift up a banner; strengthen the watch; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for YHWH has both purposed and done what he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

• Lamentations 2:17

  YHWH has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his saying that he commanded from the days of old; he has torn down and has not pitied; and he has made the enemy rejoice over you; he has raised the horn of your adversaries.

• Zechariah 1:6

  But my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned back and said, “As YHWH Tsevaot purposed to do to us according to our ways and according to our deeds, so he has done with us.”’”

• Zechariah 8:14

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot: As I purposed to do harm to you when your fathers provoked me to anger, says YHWH Tsevaot, and I did not relent,

• Zechariah 8:15

  so again I have purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear.