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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Purpose

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

36exact KJV occurrences 19Old Testament 17New Testament 19books containing the word 15mapped Strong's IDs 34occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Ruth 2:16

And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

1 John 3:8

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where purpose appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG4286
πρόθεσις

próthesis · proth'-es-is

8 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences

a setting forth, i.e. (figuratively) proposal (intention); specially, the show-bread (in the Temple) as exposed before God

Strong's KJV usage: :--purpose, shew(-bread).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 11:23Strong's last: 2 Timothy 3:10

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HebrewH2656
חֵפֶץ

chêphets · khay'-fets

3 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)

Strong's KJV usage: acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.

Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 3:1Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 8:6

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HebrewH4284
מַחֲשָׁבָה

machăshâbâh · makh-ash-aw-baw'

3 times translated as this KJV form56 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

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: Proverbs 20:18Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:29

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HebrewH559
אָמַר

ʼâmar · aw-mar'

2 times translated as this KJV form5,305 total Strong's occurrences

v

to say (used with great latitude)

Strong's KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, × desire, determine, × expressly, × indeed, × intend, name, × plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), × still, × suppose, talk, tell, term, × that is, × think, use (speech), utter, × verily, × yet.

Strong's first: 1 Kings 5:5Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 28:10

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HebrewH2803
חָשַׁב

châshab · khaw-shab'

2 times translated as this KJV form124 total Strong's occurrences

v

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.

Strong's first: Jeremiah 26:3Strong's last: Jeremiah 36:3

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GreekG1013
βούλημα

boúlēma · boo'-lay-mah

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

a resolve

Strong's KJV usage: :--purpose, will.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 27:43Strong's last: Acts 27:43

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GreekG5101
τίς

tís · tis

1 times translated as this KJV form556 total Strong's occurrences

an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)

Strong's KJV usage: :--every man, how (much), + no(-ne, thing), what (manner, thing), where (-by, -fore, -of, -unto, - with, -withal), whether, which, who(-m, -se), why.

Strong's first: Matthew 26:8Strong's last: Matthew 26:8

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HebrewH1697
דָּבָר

dâbâr · daw-baw'

1 times translated as this KJV form1,425 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause

Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.

Strong's first: Nehemiah 8:4Strong's last: Nehemiah 8:4

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HebrewH4639
מַעֲשֶׂה

maʻăseh · mah-as-eh'

1 times translated as this KJV form229 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property

Strong's KJV usage: act, art, bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, × well, (handy-, needle-, net-) work(ing, -manship), wrought.

Strong's first: Job 33:17Strong's last: Job 33:17

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AramaicH6640
צְבוּ

tsᵉbûw · tseb-oo'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

properly, will; concretely, an affair (as a matter of determination)

Strong's KJV usage: purpose.

Strong's first: Daniel 6:17Strong's last: Daniel 6:17

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Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.

EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Clear
1 John 3:8
G5124

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

purpose

PUR'POSE, noun [Latin propositum, propono; pro, before, and pono, to set or place.]

1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure or exertion. We believe the Supreme Being created intelligent beings for some benevolent and glorious purpose and if so, how glorious and benevolent must be his purpose in the plan of redemption! The ambition of men is generally directed to one of two purposes, or to both; the acquisition of wealth or of power. We build houses for the purpose of shelter; we labor for the purpose of subsistence.

2. Intention; design. This sense, however, is hardly to be distinguished from the former; as purpose always includes the end in view.

Every purpose is established by counsel. Proverbs 20:18.

Being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Ephesians 1:11.

3. End; effect; consequence, good or bad. What good purpose will this answer? We sometimes labor to no purpose Men often employ their time, talents and money for very evil purposes.

To what purpose is this waste? Matthew 26:8.

4. Instance; example. [Not in use.]

5. Conversation. [Not in use.]

Of purpose on purpose with previous design; with the mind directed to that object. On purpose is more generally used, but the true phrase is of purpose

PUR'POSE, verb intransitive To intend; to design; to resolve; to determine on some end or object to be accomplished.

I have purposed it, I will also do it. Isaiah 46:11. Ephesians 3:11.

Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem. Acts 19:21.

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.

SOURCE & METHOD

Know what each layer is—and what it is not.

KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.