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Psalms 77:6
“I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
חָשַׁבchâshab · khaw-shab'
H2803 · Hebrew
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
- חִשַּׁ֣בְתִּי — verb Piel, perfect, 1st person, common, singular
- 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.