Job 5:12
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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Devices
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2 Corinthians 2:11
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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מַחֲשָׁבָה
machăshâbâh · makh-ash-aw-baw'
8 times translated as this KJV form56 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 5:12Strong's last: Daniel 11:25
Open full H4284 profile →מְזִמָּה
mᵉzimmâh · mez-im-maw'
5 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity)
Strong's KJV usage: (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 21:27Strong's last: Proverbs 14:17
Open full H4209 profile →νόημα
nóēma · no'-ay-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a perception, i.e. purpose, or (by implication) the intellect, disposition, itself
Strong's KJV usage: :--device, mind, thought.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 2:11Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 2:11
Open full G3540 profile →זִמָּה
zimmâh · zim-maw'
1 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
a plan, especially a bad one
Strong's KJV usage: heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 32:7Strong's last: Isaiah 32:7
Open full H2154 profile →מוֹעֵצָה
môwʻêtsâh · mo-ay-tsaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a purpose
Strong's KJV usage: counsel, device.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 1:31Strong's last: Proverbs 1:31
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H4284
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
H4209
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
H4209
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
H4284
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
H4209
Rest 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.
H4156
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
H4209
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
H4209
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
H4284
There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
H2154
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
H4284
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
H4284
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
H4284
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
H4284
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.
H4284
And 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.
G3540
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
English meaning and historical usage.
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device
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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