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

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• (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

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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