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Plot

חֵ֫פֶשׂStrong’s H2665

chephes (che-phe-s)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Chephes is the Hebrew word usually translated “plot”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.”
Psalms 64:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. Trick, plot, (shrewd) device
How it's translated
  • a plot 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    חֵ֫פֶשׂ chephes · plot

    trick, plot, (shrewd) device

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “plot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    PLOT, noun

    [a different orthography of plat.]

    1. A plat or small extent of ground; as a garden plot
    2. A plantation laid out.
    3. A plan or scheme. [Qu. the next word.]
    4. In surveying, a plan or draught of a field, farm or manor surveyed and delineated on paper.
    All definitions and other forms of “plot”

      PLOT, verb transitive

      To make a plan of; to delineate.

        PLOT, noun

        1. Any scheme, stratagem or plan of a complicated nature, or consisting of many parts, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a mischievous one.
        2. In dramatic writings, the knot or intrigue; the story of a play, comprising a complication of incidents which are at last unfolded by unexpected means.
        3. Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot

        PLOT, verb intransitive

        To form a scheme of mischief against another, or against a government or those who administer it. A traitor plots against his king.

        1. “The wicked plotteth against the just” Psalms 37:12
        2. To contrive a plan; to scheme.

        PLOT, verb transitive

        To plan; to devise; to contrive; as, to plot an unprofitable crime.

          Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

          Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.