מַחֲשָׁבָה (maḥăšābâ) is a Hebrew noun meaning thought. It appears 56 times in 15 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4284).

Also rendered

• plot

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 767d)

Root family 767: חָשַׁב ḥāšab — think, plan, make a judgment, imagine, count. (ASV and RSV mainly similar, though RSV avoids the translations “imagine” and “count.”)

• חָשַׁב ḥāšab — think
• חֵשֶׁב ḥēšeb — ingenious work
• חֶשְׁבּוֹן ḥešbôn — reckoning
• חִשָּׁבוֹן ḥiššābôn — device

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