To devise
חָשַׁבStrong’s H2803chashav (cha-shav)
Appears in 122 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chashav is the Hebrew word usually translated “skillful worker”, “planning” and “calculate”. It appears in 122 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.”
Meaning
- To think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Piel) · (Hithpael) to be considered
How it's translated
- a skillful worker 8
- planning 6
- and he will calculate 5
- they are regarded 5
- it will be reckoned 3
- it is reckoned 3
- he had planned 3
- they have planned 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 18
- Exodus 12
- Isaiah 12
- Jeremiah 12
- Job 10
- Leviticus 8
28 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:25In contextAnd he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.
- Zechariah 7:10In contextAnd oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
- Zechariah 8:17In contextAnd let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
- Genesis 15:6And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
- Genesis 31:15Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
- Genesis 38:15When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
All 122 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חָשַׁב chashav · to devise
: design/skillful 1) to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to think, account 1a2) to plan, devise, mean 1a3) to charge, impute, reckon 1a4) to esteem, value, regard 1a5) to invent 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be accounted, be thought, be esteemed 1b2) to be computed, be reckoned 1b3) to be imputed 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to think upon, consider, be mindful of 1c2) to think to do, devise, plan 1c3) to count, reckon 1d) (Hithpael) to be considered
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “devise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEVISE, verb transitive
s as z. [Latin]
- To invent; to contrive; to form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to excogitate; to strike out by thought; to plan; to scheme; to project; as, to devise an engine or machine; to devise a new mode of writing; to devise a plan of defense; to devise arguments.“To devise curious works in gold and silver” Exodus 35:32“DEVISE not evil against thy neighbor” Proverbs 3:29
- To give or bequeath by will, as land or other real estate.
All definitions and other forms of “devise”
DEVISE, verb intransitive
To consider; to contrive; to lay a plan; to form a scheme.
DEVISE, noun
- Primarily, a dividing or division; hence, the act of bequeathing by will; the act of giving or distributing real estate by a testator.
- A will or testament.
- A share of estate bequeathed.
DEVISE, noun
Contrivance; scheme invented.
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.