4284 - machashabah or machashebeth

Strong's Concordance

Original word: מַחֲשָׁבָה
Transliteration: machashabah or machashebeth
Definition (short): thoughts
Definition (full): a contrivance, a texture, machine, intention, plan

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from chashab
Definition: thought, device
NASB Translation: design (1), designs (3), devised (1), intentions* (1), invented (1), inventive (1), plan (2), plans (14), plot (1), plots (1), plotting (1), purposes (3), scheme (2), schemes (4), thoughts (19), ways (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh'-beth}; from chashab; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice) -- cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.

see HEBREW chashab

KJV: And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
NASB: Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
KJV: To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
NASB: to make artistic designs for work in gold, in silver, and in bronze,
KJV: And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
NASB: to make designs for working in gold and in silver and in bronze,
KJV: And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
NASB: and in the cutting of stones for settings and in the carving of wood, so as to perform in every inventive work.
KJV: Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
NASB: "He has filled them with skill to perform every work of an engraver and of a designer and of an embroiderer, in blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and in fine linen, and of a weaver, as performers of every work and makers of designs.