Original Language Studio
Jeremiah 23:27
“Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2803 · Hebrew
- Definition
- 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
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- (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.
- Grammar
- הַ — particle (definite article)
- חֹשְׁבִ֗ים — verb Qal, active participle, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 124 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 15:6Genesis 31:15Genesis 38:15Genesis 50:20Genesis 50:20
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חָשַׁב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.