חָשַׁב
cha.shav
to devise: design
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word חָשַׁב (cha.shav) is used 34 times in the Bible and generally translates to "to devise" or "design." Its short definition reveals its core meaning: planning or designing something, often with intent or purpose. As a verb in the Cognition & Perception semantic domain, cha.shav likely involves mental processes like thinking, planning, or scheming - essentially the act of bringing a thought or idea from imagination to reality. The Bible uses cha.shav in a variety of contexts, indicating its flexibility in translation. Cha.shav can describe plotting evil (Psalm 37:12, Psalm 10:2) or devising plans for good, like building a temple (1 Chronicles 28:12, 2 Chronicles 2:12). The consistency in its translation suggests that cha.shav consistently emphasizes the intentional effort of bringing something from concept to action. Cha.shav's significance in the Hebrew Bible lies in its focus on human intentionality. The word underscores the power and responsibility that comes with mental planning, and its numerous occurrences suggest a pervasive aspect of human nature. Whether used for constructive or destructive purposes, cha.shav emphasizes the impact that thinking and planning have on our actions and the world around us.
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Occurrences in Scripture
34 total occurrences across the text
I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.
Psalms 32:2Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalms 44:22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 88:4I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
Psalms 106:31That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.
Proverbs 27:14He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
Isaiah 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Isaiah 33:8The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.
Isaiah 40:15Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
Isaiah 40:17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Lamentations 4:2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Hosea 8:12I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.
Malachi 3:16Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
Genesis 15:6He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
Genesis 31:15Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
Leviticus 7:18If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 17:4and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus 25:27then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
Leviticus 25:31But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
Numbers 18:27Your wave offering shall be credited to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the wine press.
Leviticus 25:50He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.
Leviticus 25:52If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
Leviticus 27:18But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.
Leviticus 27:23then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh.
Numbers 18:30“Therefore you shall tell them, ‘When you heave its best from it, then it shall be credited to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the wine press.
Numbers 23:9For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.
Joshua 13:3from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
2 Samuel 4:2Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is considered a part of Benjamin:
2 Samuel 19:19He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
1 Kings 10:21All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon.
2 Kings 12:15Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings 22:7However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”
2 Chronicles 9:20All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.