2 Samuel 21:5
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
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Devised
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2 Peter 1:16
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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חָשַׁב
châshab · khaw-shab'
5 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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Esther 8:3Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:2
Open full H2803 profile →זָמַם
zâmam · zaw-mam'
3 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to plan, usually in a bad sense
Strong's KJV usage: consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 31:13Strong's last: Lamentations 2:17
Open full H2161 profile →σοφίζω
sophízō · sof-id'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to render wise; in a sinister acceptation, to form "sophisms", i.e. continue plausible error
Strong's KJV usage: :--cunningly devised, make wise.
Strong's first: 2 Peter 1:16Strong's last: 2 Peter 1:16
Open full G4679 profile →בָּדָא
bâdâʼ · baw-daw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
(figuratively) to invent
Strong's KJV usage: devise, feign.
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Strong's first: 1 Kings 12:33Strong's last: 1 Kings 12:33
Open full H908 profile →דָּמָה
dâmâh · daw-maw'
1 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
Strong's KJV usage: compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 21:5Strong's last: 2 Samuel 21:5
Open full H1819 profile →מַחֲשָׁבָה
machăshâbâh · makh-ash-aw-baw'
1 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: Esther 8:5Strong's last: Esther 8:5
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H2803
And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
H4284
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
H2803
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
H2803
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
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devised
DEVISED, participle passive Given by will; bequeathed; contrived.
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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