chashav · think, count, devise

What it means

chashav (חָשַׁב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “think, count, devise”.

Think, consider; count something as something else ("count as", "credit as"). Also devise, design, plan, often evil: "the work of a skilled craftsman" is, literally, "the work of one who designs".

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 turn something over in the mind until forming an opinion.
2. To hold or give something as so: to put it on someone's account.
3. To devise a plan or a design, good or bad.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To think, to consider; to count something as something else; to calculate; and also to devise, to plot, to design. BDB adds “to value” and, in the crafts, to invent works of art. From this verb comes מַחֲשָׁבָה, thought (H4284).

• “He counted it to him as righteousness” Genesis 15:6
• “You planned evil against me; Elohim planned it for good” Genesis 50:20
• “The plans that I am planning for you” Jeremiah 29:11
• Devising designs; the work of a skilled craftsman Exodus 31:4Exodus 26:1
• Plotting evil Psalms 35:4
• Calculating a price Leviticus 25:27

How we translate it

“Devise” 15 times, “counted” 11, “skilled craftsman” 8 (in “the work of a skilled craftsman”), “considered” 5, “planned” 5, “regarded” 5… In Genesis 15:6, “counted”; in 2 Samuel 19:19, “hold” a guilt against someone; with accounts, “calculate”; and in the work of the dwelling, “devise” or “skilled craftsman”.

How it is translated

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

• devise ×15
• counted ×11
• skilled craftsman ×8
• considered ×5
• planned ×5
• regarded ×5
• shall be counted ×4
• am planning ×3
• count ×3
• devises ×3
• others ×62

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×13
• Leviticus×8
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Nehemiah×3
• Esther×3
• Job×10
• Psalms×18
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×12
• Jeremiah×12
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×2
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1
• Micah×2
• Nahum×2
• Zechariah×2
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 15:6

  And he believed in YHWH, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

• Genesis 31:15

  Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he sold us, and he has also completely eaten up our silver.

• Genesis 38:15

  Judah saw her and thought her to be a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

• Genesis 50:20

  As for you, you planned evil against me; Elohim planned it for good, in order to bring about what is happening today: keeping alive many people.

• Exodus 26:1

  The dwelling you shall make of ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, you shall make them.

• Exodus 26:31

  You shall make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, it shall be made.

• Exodus 28:6

  They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Exodus 28:15

  You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, the work of a skilled craftsman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen you shall make it.

• Exodus 31:4

  to devise designs, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,

• Exodus 35:32

  and to devise designs, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,

• Exodus 35:35

  He has filled them with wisdom of heart to do all the work of the engraver, and of the designer, and of the embroiderer in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, doers of every work and devisers of designs.

• Exodus 36:8

  And all the wise of heart among those who did the work made the dwelling with ten curtains of twisted fine linen and blue and purple and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, he made them.

• Exodus 36:35

  And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; the work of a skilled craftsman, he made it with cherubim.

• Exodus 38:23

  And with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a designer, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and in fine linen.

• Exodus 39:3

  And they hammered out the sheets of gold, and he cut them into threads to work them into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the fine linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Exodus 39:8

  And he made the breastpiece, the work of a skilled craftsman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twisted fine linen.

• Leviticus 7:18

  And if any of the flesh of his sacrifice of peace is ever eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted; for the one who presents it, it shall not be credited to him; it shall be a repulsive thing, and the person who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

• Leviticus 17:4

  and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present an offering to YHWH before the dwelling of YHWH, blood shall be counted to that man: he has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

• Leviticus 25:27

  he shall calculate the years since his sale and give back the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.

• Leviticus 25:31

  But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be counted as the field of the land; they shall have redemption, and in the jubilee they shall go free.

• Leviticus 25:50

  And he shall calculate with the one who bought him from the year he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the silver of his sale shall be according to the number of years; as the days of a hired worker it shall be with him.

• Leviticus 25:52

  And if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate with him; according to his years he shall pay back the price of his redemption.

• Leviticus 27:18

  But if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest shall calculate for him the silver according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and it shall be deducted from the valuation.

• Leviticus 27:23

  then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of the valuation until the year of jubilee, and he shall give the valuation on that day, as holy to YHWH.

• Numbers 18:27

  And your contribution shall be counted to you as the grain from the threshing floor, and as the full produce from the winepress.

• Numbers 18:30

  And you shall say to them, ‘When you set apart the best of it from it, then it shall be counted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress.

• Numbers 23:9

  For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I gaze on him. Look, a people that dwells alone, and does not count itself among the nations!

• Deuteronomy 2:11

  They too were counted as Rephaim, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

• Deuteronomy 2:20

  (It too was counted as a land of Rephaim; Rephaim lived there formerly, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

• Joshua 13:3

  (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, and as far as the border of Ekron to the north, it is counted as Canaanite); the five rulers of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite; and the Avvites

• 1 Samuel 1:13

  Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips were moving, and her voice was not heard. So Eli took her to be drunk.

• 1 Samuel 18:25

  Saul said, “Thus you shall say to David: ‘The king has no delight in a bride-price, but in a hundred foreskins of Philistines, to take vengeance on the enemies of the king.’” And Saul planned to bring down David by the hand of the Philistines.

• 2 Samuel 4:2

  The son of Saul had two men, commanders of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the second Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin; for Beeroth also is counted as part of Benjamin.

• 2 Samuel 14:13

  The woman said, “Why then have you thought such a thing against the people of Elohim? For in speaking this word, the king is like one guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.

• 2 Samuel 14:14

  For we will surely die, and we are like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up; but Elohim does not take away life, and he devises plans so that the banished one may not remain banished from him.

• 2 Samuel 19:19

  and he said to the king, “Let not my lord hold iniquity against me, and do not remember what your servant did with iniquity on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart.

• 1 Kings 10:21

  And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the utensils of the house of the Forest of Lebanon were of fine gold; there was no silver; it was not considered in the days of Solomon as anything.

• 2 Kings 12:15

  They did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the silver to give to those doing the work, for they were acting with faithfulness.

• 2 Kings 22:7

  But no account shall be asked of them for the silver that is given into their hand, for they act with faithfulness.”

• 2 Chronicles 2:14

  the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre; he knows how to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in wood, in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, and to engrave any engraving and to devise any design that may be assigned to him, with your wise men and the wise men of my lord David your father.

And 84 more times.