חָשַׁב (ḥāšab) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning think. It appears
124 times
in 28 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H2803).
Also rendered
to devise
design
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 767)
Range of meaning (TWOT 767)think, account; devise, plan, mean, charge, impute, esteem, value, regard, invent, inpute, reckon; thought, be computed, be imputed to any one; think upon, consider, be mindful of, count; plait, interpenetrate, weave, fabricate…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
חָשַׁבverb: think, account
Qal
I.of man
1.think, account
2.devise, plan, mean
3.charge, impute
4.esteem, value, regard
5.invent ingenious and artistic things
II.of God
1.think
2.devise, plan, mean
3.inpute, reckon
4.esteem, value, regard
5.invent ingenious and artistic things
Niphal
1.be accounted, thought, esteemed
2.be computed, reckoned
3.be imputed to any one
Piel
1.think upon, consider, be mindful of
2.think to do, devise, plan
3.count, reckon, the years since a sale of land
Strong's H2803חָשַׁב: 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 KJV:(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.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.