Plot
מַחֲשָׁבָהStrong’s H4284machashavah (ma-cha-sha-vah)
Appears in 52 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machashavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “plans of”, “plans” and “thoughts of”. It appears in 52 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
- Thought, devicethought · device, plan, purpose · invention
How it's translated
- plans of 9
- plans 7
- thoughts of 6
- designs 3
- thoughts your 3
- plans their 3
- design 2
- plan his 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 11
- Proverbs 8
- Psalms 6
- Isaiah 6
- Exodus 4
- Esther 3
15 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.
- Genesis 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Exodus 31:4To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
- Exodus 35:32And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
- Exodus 35:33And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
- Exodus 35:35Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
All 52 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲשָׁבָה machashavah · plot
1) thought, device 1a) thought 1b) device, plan, purpose 1c) invention
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.