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The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Read in context →Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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machăshâbâh · makh-ash-aw-baw'
a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
Strong's KJV usage: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 2:14Strong's last: Jeremiah 18:11
Open full H4284 profile →mᵉzimmâh · mez-im-maw'
a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity)
Strong's KJV usage: (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.
Strong's first: Psalms 21:11Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:11
Open full H4209 profile →enthýmēsis · en-thoo'-may-sis
deliberation
Strong's KJV usage: :--device, thought.
Strong's first: Acts 17:29Strong's last: Acts 17:29
Open full G1761 profile →higgâyôwn · hig-gaw-yone'
a murmuring sound, i.e. a musical notation (probably similar to the modern affettuoso to indicate solemnity of movement); by implication, a machination
Strong's KJV usage: device, Higgaion, meditation, solemn sound.
Strong's first: Lamentations 3:62Strong's last: Lamentations 3:62
Open full H1902 profile →zâmâm · zaw-mawm'
a plot
Strong's KJV usage: wicked device.
Strong's first: Psalms 140:8Strong's last: Psalms 140:8
Open full H2162 profile →cheshbôwn · khesh-bone'
properly, contrivance; by implication, intelligence
Strong's KJV usage: account, device, reason.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 9:10Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 9:10
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The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
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DEVICE, noun [Latin]
1. That which is formed by design, or invented; scheme; artificial contrivance; stratagem; project; sometimes in a good sense; more generally in a bad sense, as artifices are usually employed for bad purposes.
In a good sense:
His device is against Babylon, to destroy it. Psalms 21:11.
In a bad sense:
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Psalms 21:11.
They imagined a mischievous device Psalms 21:11.
2. An emblem intended to represent a family, person, action or quality, with a suitable motto; used in painting, sculpture and heraldry. It consists in a metaphorical similitude between the things representing and represented, as the figure of a plow representing agriculture.
Knights-errant used to distinguish themselves by devices on their shields.
3. Invention; genius; faculty of devising; as a man of noble device
4. A spectacle or show.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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