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 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.
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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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