H2161 זָמַם
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 13 KJV occurrences
זָמַם
zâmam · zaw-mam'
Definition
to plan, usually in a bad sense
KJV Renderings
consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 13)
- Genesis 11:6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
- Deuteronomy 19:19Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
- Psalms 31:13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
- Psalms 37:12The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
- Proverbs 31:16She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
- Jeremiah 51:12Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
- Lamentations 2:17The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
- Zechariah 8:14For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: