Plot
מְזִמָּהStrong’s H4209mezimmah (me-zim-mah)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mezimmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “discretion”, “plots” and “evil devices”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.”
Meaning
- Purpose, discretion, device, plotpurpose · discretion · devices (evil)
How it's translated
- discretion 3
- plots 2
- and discretion 2
- evil devices 2
- purposes of 2
- and schemes 1
- a purpose 1
- by schemes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 8
- Psalms 5
- Jeremiah 4
- Job 2
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 42:2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
- Psalms 10:2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Psalms 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
- Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
- Psalms 37:7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
- Psalms 139:20For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Hebrew dictionary
מְזִמָּה mezimmah · plot
1) purpose, discretion, device, plot 1a) purpose 1b) discretion 1c) devices (evil)
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.]
- A plat or small extent of ground; as a garden plot
- A plantation laid out.
- A plan or scheme. [Qu. the next word.]
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- “The wicked plotteth against the just” Psalms 37:12
- 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.