mezima · plan, scheme, discretion

What it means

mezima (מְזִמָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plan, scheme, discretion”.

A plan, a thought-out purpose; often an evil plan, a plot; sometimes good judgment.

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. What one plots, often evil.
2. Prudence not to err; the care of one who thinks before acting.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• discretion ×5
• plans ×5
• schemes ×4
• plan ×2
• purposes ×2
• purpose ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×8
• Jeremiah×4

• Job 21:27

  Look, I know your thoughts, and the plans with which you do me violence.

• Job 42:2

  “I know that you can do all things, and that no plan is beyond reach for you.

• Psalms 10:2

  In his pride the wicked hotly pursues the afflicted; let them be caught in the plans that they have devised.

• Psalms 10:4

  The wicked, in the haughtiness of his face, does not seek; “There is no Elohim”: such are all his plans.

• Psalms 21:11

  For they stretched out evil against you; they devised a plan; they will not prevail.

• Psalms 37:7

  Be silent before YHWH and wait longingly for him; do not get heated because of the one who prospers in his way, because of the man who carries out plans.

• Psalms 139:20

  who speak of you with plans; they take it up in vain, your enemies.

• Proverbs 1:4

  to give to the simple shrewdness, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

• Proverbs 2:11

  Discretion will watch over you; insight will guard you,

• Proverbs 3:21

  My son, let them not slip from your eyes; keep sound judgment and discretion;

• Proverbs 5:2

  to keep discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

• Proverbs 8:12

  I, wisdom, dwell with shrewdness, and the knowledge of discretion I find.

• Proverbs 12:2

  The good man obtains favor from YHWH, but a man of schemes he declares wicked.

• Proverbs 14:17

  One who is short of anger does folly, and a man of schemes is hated.

• Proverbs 24:8

  Whoever plans to do evil, they will call him a master of schemes.

• Jeremiah 11:15

  What right has my beloved in my house, when she has carried out her schemes, the many? And the holy flesh will pass from upon you, for in your evil, then you exult.

• Jeremiah 23:20

  The anger of YHWH will not turn back until he has done and until he has carried out the purposes of his heart; in the last days you will understand it with understanding.

• Jeremiah 30:24

  The burning of the anger of YHWH will not turn back until he has done them and until he has carried out the purposes of his heart; in the latter days you will understand it.

• Jeremiah 51:11

  Sharpen the arrows! Fill the shields! YHWH has stirred up the spirit of the kings of Media, for against Babylon is his purpose, to destroy her; for it is the vengeance of YHWH, the vengeance for his temple.