Exodus 31:4
To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
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Devise
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Micah 2:3
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
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4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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חָשַׁב
châshab · khaw-shab'
13 times translated as this KJV form124 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
Strong's KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
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Strong's first: Exodus 31:4Strong's last: Micah 2:3
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chârash · khaw-rash'
3 times translated as this KJV form74 total Strong's occurrences
to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness)
Strong's KJV usage: × altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 3:29Strong's last: Proverbs 14:22
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Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
H2790
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
H2790
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
H2803
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
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devise
DEVISE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin]
1. To invent; to contrive; to form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to excogitate; to strike out by thought; to plan; to scheme; to project; as, to devise an engine or machine; to devise a new mode of writing; to devise a plan of defense; to devise arguments.
To devise curious works in gold and silver. Exodus 35:32.
In a bad sense:
DEVISE not evil against thy neighbor. Proverbs 3:29.
2. To give or bequeath by will, as land or other real estate.
DEVISE, verb intransitive To consider; to contrive; to lay a plan; to form a scheme.
DEVISE how you will use him, when he comes.
Formerly followed by of; as, let us devise of ease.
DEVISE, noun
1. Primarily, a dividing or division; hence, the act of bequeathing by will; the act of giving or distributing real estate by a testator.
2. A will or testament.
3. A share of estate bequeathed.
DEVISE, noun Contrivance; scheme invented.
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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