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Lexicon :: Strong's H2803 - ḥāšaḇ

Aa
חָשַׁב
Transliteration
ḥāšaḇ
Pronunciation
khaw-shav'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 767

Strong’s Definitions

חָשַׁב châshab, khaw-shab'; a primitive root; 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:—(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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 124x

The KJV translates Strong's H2803 in the following manner: count (23x), devise (22x), think (18x), imagine (9x), cunning (8x), reckon (7x), purpose (6x), esteem (6x), account (5x), impute (4x), forecast (2x), regard (2x), workman (2x), conceived (1x), miscellaneous (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 124x
The KJV translates Strong's H2803 in the following manner: count (23x), devise (22x), think (18x), imagine (9x), cunning (8x), reckon (7x), purpose (6x), esteem (6x), account (5x), impute (4x), forecast (2x), regard (2x), workman (2x), conceived (1x), miscellaneous (9x).

  1. to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count

    1. (Qal)

      1. to think, account

      2. to plan, devise, mean

      3. to charge, impute, reckon

      4. to esteem, value, regard

      5. to invent

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to be accounted, be thought, be esteemed

      2. to be computed, be reckoned

      3. to be imputed

    3. (Piel)

      1. to think upon, consider, be mindful of

      2. to think to do, devise, plan

      3. to count, reckon

    4. (Hithpael) to be considered

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָשַׁב châshab, khaw-shab'; a primitive root; 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:—(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.
STRONGS H2803: Abbreviations
† חָשַׁב verb think, account (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חֲשַׁב, bdb036203; Arabic bdb036204; Ethiopic bdb036205 id.; Phoenician noun חשב meaning dubious see CISi. 86) —
Qal Perfect ח׳ Isaiah 33:8 + 9 times; חָשַׁבְתָּה 2 Samuel 14:13 etc.; Imperfect יַחְשֹׁב Isaiah 10:7 + 4 times; יַחֲשָׁבֿ 2 Samuel 19:20; Psalm 40:18 [Psalm 40:17]; suffix יַחְשְׁבֵנִי Job 19:11; Job 33:10; plural יַחְשְׁבוּ Psalm 41:8; Daniel 11:25; יַחְשֹׁ֑בוּ Isaiah 13:17; יַחֲשֹׁבוּן Psalm 35:20; נַחְשְׁבָה Jeremiah 18:18, etc. + 9 times Imperfect; Infinitive construct לַחְשֹׁב Exodus 31:4 + 3 times; Participle חשֵׁב Exodus 26:1 + 15 times, חוֺשֵׁב 2 Chronicles 26:15; חשְׁבִים Nehemiah 6:2 + 3 times, חשְׁבֵי Micah 2:1 + 3 times; — I. of man:
1. think, account לבבו לא כן יחשׁב Isaiah 10:7 not so thinketh his mind; חשׁבי שׁמוֺ Malachi 3:16 those thinking of his name; followed by 2 accusatives חשׁבנהו נגוע Isaiah 53:4 we thought him stricken; elsewhere with accusative + לְ Genesis 38:15 (J), 1 Samuel 1:13; Job 19:15; Job 35:2; Job 41:24; so, figurative, of crocodile Job 41:19 he reckoneth iron as straw.
2. devise, plan, mean, with accusative מַחֲשֶׁבֶת רָעָה Ezekiel 38:10, רעה Psalm 35:4; Psalm 140:3; Zechariah 7:10; Zechariah 8:17, תַּהְפֻּכ֑וֹת Proverbs 16:30, מְזִמּוֺת Psalm 10:2; Psalm 21:12, דִּבְרֵי מִרְמוֺת Psalm 35:20, אָוֶן Micah 2:1; Ezekiel 11:2; Psalm 36:5, הַוּוֺת Psalm 52:4; רע(ה) על ח׳ devise evil against Genesis 50:20 (E), Jeremiah 48:2; Nahum 1:11, רעה לְ ח׳ Psalm 41:8, מַחֲשֶׁבֶת על ח׳ Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 18:18; Jeremiah 49:30; Daniel 11:25; Esther 8:3; Esther 9:25, כזאת על ח׳ 2 Samuel 14:13; with infinitive 1 Samuel 18:25; Jeremiah 18:8; Jeremiah 23:27; Job 6:26; Nehemiah 6:2, 6; Esther 9:24; Psalm 140:5; with לבלתי + Imperfect 2 Samuel 14:14 (where, however, Ew reads חוֺבֵ for וחשׁב compare We Dr; in this case לבלתי carries on לֹא יִשָּׂא).
3. charge, impute עון ל׳ ח׳, 2 Samuel 19:20 impute iniquity to.
4. esteem, value, regard, silver Isaiah 13:17, a man Isaiah 33:8, the servant of י׳ Isaiah 53:3.
5. invent ingenious and artistic things, להם כלי שׁיר ח׳ Amos 6:5 invent for themselves instruments of music; (כל) מחשׁבת ח׳ invent cunning work (of artistic devices in construction of tabernacle) Exodus 31:4; Exodus 35:32, 35 (all P), so 2 Chronicles 2:13; מַעֲשֵׂה חשֵׁב work of the cunning (ingenious, inventive) workman (of artistic devices in weaving; see especially VB and Di) Exodus 26:1, 31; Exodus 28:6, 15; Exodus 36:8, 35; Exodus 39:3, 8 (all P); מַחֲשֶׁבֶת חוֺשֵׁב 2 Chronicles 26:15 inventions of inventive men (of engines of war); חָרָשׁ וְחשֵׁב craftsman and inventive workman (in construction of tabernacle, see above) Exodus 35:35; Exodus 38:23 (P).
II. of God:
1. think, with accusative of persson + לְ indirect object account one לאויב, for an enemy Job 13:24; Job 33:10; לוֺ כצריו ח׳ Job 19:11 he accounted me unto him as his adversaries.
2. devise, plan, mean, with accusative + ל indirect object לטבה for good Genesis 50:20 (E); with ל person לִי devise for me Psalm 40:18; accusative of thing + עַל, devise something against a person Micah 2:3; Jeremiah 18:11; towards one Jeremiah 29:11, with אל against Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 50:45; followed by infinitive Jeremiah 26:3; Jeremiah 36:3; Lamentations 2:8.
3. impute, reckon, with accusative of thing + ל person, the habit of believing in י׳ he reckoned to Abram as righteousness Genesis 15:6 (J E; compare Niph. 3); not impute iniquity to one Psalm 32:2.
Niph.. Perfect נֶחְשַׁב Numbers 18:27, 30, נֶחְשַׁבְתִּי Psalm 88:5 etc. + 10 times Perfect; Imperfect יֵחָשֵׁב Leviticus 7:18 + 7 times, etc., + 6 times Imperfect; Participle נֶחְשָׁב Isaiah 2:22; 1 Kings 10:21; 2 Chronicles 9:20: —
1. be accounted, thought, esteemed, with כְּ as Hosea 8:12; Isaiah 5:28; Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 40:15; Psalm 44:23; Job 18:3; Job 41:21; with לְ Isaiah 29:17 = Isaiah 32:15, Lamentations 4:2; עִם with, among Psalm 88:5, בַּמֶּה Isaiah 2:22 at what (value) ? (see probably interpolated; omitted by Greek Version of the LXX); with accusative Deuteronomy 2:11, 20; Proverbs 17:28; Nehemiah 13:13; נָכְרִיּוֺת נֶחְשַׁבְנוּ לוֺ Genesis 31:13 (E; Greek Version of the LXX Sam כְּנֶח׳) Isaiah 40:17.
2. be computed, reckoned, with לְ Joshua 13:3 (D), עַל Leviticus 25:31 (P), 2 Samuel 4:2: absolute כסף was not counted (so plentiful was it) 1 Kings 10:21 2 Chronicles 9:20; 2 Kings 22:7.
3. be imputed to any one, with לְ Leviticus 7:18; Numbers 18:27, 30 (all P), Leviticus 17:4 (H) Proverbs 27:14; the interposition of Phinehas לוֺ לצדקה נח׳ Psalm 106:31 was imputed to him for righteousness (compare Qal II 3).
Pi. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular חִשַּׁב Leviticus 25:27 + 4 times; feminine חִשְּׁבָה Jonah 1:4; 1st person singular חִשַּׁבְתִּי Psalm 77:6; Psalm 119:59; Imperfect יְחַשֵּׁב Proverbs 16:9; Daniel 11:24, תְּחַשְּׁבוּן Nahum 1:9, etc., + 4 times Imperfect; Participle מְחַשֵּׁב Proverbs 24:8: —
1. think upon, consider, be mindful of, with accusative Psalm 77:6; Psalm 119:59, (מה) בֶּןאֱֿנוֺשׁ וַתְּחַשְּׁבֵהוּ Psalm 144:3 what (is) man's son, and thou thinkest upon him (|| תֵּדָעֵהוּ).
2. think to do, devise, plan, with accusative Proverbs 16:9, אֶל of persons against whom Hosea 7:15; Nahum 1:9, עַל Daniel 11:24; with infinitive Psalm 73:16; Proverbs 24:8; so of inanimate object הָאֳנִיָּה חִשְּׁבָה לְהִשָּׁבֵר Jonah 1:4 the ship was about to (minded to) be broken up.
3. count, reckon, the years since a sale of land Leviticus 25:27 (H); with לְ person Leviticus 25:52 (H), Leviticus 27:18, 23 (P); with עִם Leviticus 25:50 (P); with אֶת 2 Kings 12:16.
Hithp. Imperfect בַּגּוֺיִם לֹא יִתְחַשָּׁ֑ב Numbers 23:9 (JE) among the nations it shall not reckon itself.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H2804.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:6; 31:13; 38:15; 50:20; 50:20

Exodus

26:1; 26:1; 26:31; 28:6; 28:15; 31:4; 31:4; 35:32; 35:35; 35:35; 36:8; 36:35; 38:23; 39:3; 39:8

Leviticus

7:18; 7:18; 17:4; 25:27; 25:27; 25:31; 25:50; 25:52; 27:18; 27:23

Numbers

18:27; 18:27; 18:30; 18:30; 23:9

Deuteronomy

2:11; 2:20

Joshua

13:3

1 Samuel

1:13; 18:25

2 Samuel

4:2; 14:13; 14:13; 14:14; 19:20; 19:20

1 Kings

10:21; 10:21

2 Kings

12:16; 22:7

2 Chronicles

2:13; 9:20; 9:20; 26:15; 26:15

Nehemiah

6:2; 6:2; 6:6; 13:13

Esther

8:3; 9:24; 9:25

Job

6:26; 13:24; 18:3; 19:11; 19:11; 19:15; 33:10; 33:10; 35:2; 41:19; 41:21; 41:24

Psalms

10:2; 21:12; 32:2; 35:4; 35:20; 35:20; 36:5; 40:17; 41:8; 41:8; 44:23; 52:4; 73:16; 77:6; 77:6; 88:5; 88:5; 106:31; 119:59; 119:59; 140:3; 140:5; 144:3

Proverbs

16:9; 16:9; 16:30; 17:28; 24:8; 24:8; 27:14

Isaiah

2:22; 2:22; 5:28; 10:7; 10:7; 13:17; 13:17; 29:16; 29:17; 32:15; 33:8; 33:8; 40:15; 40:17; 53:3; 53:4

Jeremiah

11:19; 18:8; 18:11; 18:18; 18:18; 23:27; 26:3; 29:11; 36:3; 48:2; 49:20; 49:30; 50:45

Lamentations

2:8; 4:2

Ezekiel

11:2; 38:10

Daniel

11:24; 11:24; 11:25; 11:25

Hosea

7:15; 8:12

Amos

6:5

Jonah

1:4; 1:4

Micah

2:1; 2:1; 2:3

Nahum

1:9; 1:9; 1:11

Zechariah

7:10; 8:17

Malachi

3:16

H2803

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Strong's Number H2803 matches the Hebrew חָשַׁב (ḥāšaḇ),
which occurs 124 times in 122 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Job 18:3–Jer 29:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:3 - Why are we counted as beasts,
And regarded as stupid in your sight?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:11 - He has also kindled His wrath against me,
And He counts me as one of His enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants,
Count me as a stranger;
I am an alien in their sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:10 - Yet He finds occasions against me,
He counts me as His enemy;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:2 - “Do you think this is right?
Do you say,
‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:27 - He regards iron as straw,
And bronze as rotten wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:29 - Darts are regarded as straw;
He laughs at the threat of javelins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32 - He leaves a shining wake behind him;
One would think the deep had white hair.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:2 - The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:11 - For they intended evil against You;
They devised a plot which they are not able to perform.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:2 - Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:4 - Let those be put to shame and brought to dishonor
Who seek after my life;
Let those be turned back and brought to confusion
Who plot my hurt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:20 - For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful matters
Against the quiet ones in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - He devises wickedness on his bed;
He sets himself in a way that is not good;
He does not abhor evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:17 - But I am poor and needy;
Yet the LORD thinks upon me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:7 - All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they devise my hurt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:22 - Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:2 - Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 - When I thought how to understand this,
It was too painful for me—

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:5 - I have considered the days of old,
The years of ancient times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 - I am counted with those who go down to the pit;
I am like a man who has no strength,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:31 - And that was accounted to him for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:59

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:59 - I thought about my ways,
And turned my feet to Your testimonies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:2 - Who plan evil things in their hearts;
They continually gather together for war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:4 - Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;
Preserve me from violent men,
Who have purposed to make my steps stumble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:3 - LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him?
Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:9 - A man’s heart plans his way,
But the LORD directs his steps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:30 - He winks his eye to devise perverse things;
He purses his lips and brings about evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:28 - Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace;
When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:8 - He who plots to do evil
Will be called a schemer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:14 - He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
It will be counted a curse to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:22 - Sever yourselves from such a man,
Whose breath is in his nostrils;
For of what account is he?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:28 - Whose arrows are sharp,
And all their bows bent;
Their horses’ hooves will seem like flint,
And their wheels like a whirlwind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 - Yet he does not mean so,
Nor does his heart think so;
But it is in his heart to destroy,
And cut off not a few nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:17 - “Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - Surely you have things turned around!
Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;
For shall the thing made say of him who made it,
“He did not make me”?
Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 - Is it not yet a very little while
Till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:15 - Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste,
The traveling man ceases.
He has broken the covenant,
He has despised the cities,[fn]
He regards no man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 - Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket,
And are counted as the small dust on the scales;
Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 - All nations before Him are as nothing,
And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:3 - He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:4 - Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - But I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:8 - “if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 - Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - “who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:3 - ‘Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way, that I may relent concerning the calamity which I purpose to bring on them because of the evil of their doings.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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