Strong's Number: H2803
Original Word: hashab
Usage Notes: "to think, account, reckon, devise, plan." This word is found throughout the historical development of Hebrew and Aramaic. Found at least 120 times in the Hebrew Bible, hashab occurs in the text for the first time in Gen 15:6, where it was said of Abraham: "He believed the Lord; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness" (rsv). Here the term has the meaning of "to be imputed."
Frequently used in the ordinary sense of "thinking," or the normal thought processes (Isa 10:7; Isa 53:4; Mal 3:16), hashab also is used in the sense of "devising evil plans" (Gen 50:20; Jer 48:2). The word refers to craftsmen "inventing" instruments of music, artistic objects, and weapons of war (Exod 31:4; 2Chr 26:15; Amos 6:5).
