Limitless Word
זָמַםzâmam/zaw-mam'/
HebrewH216113 occurrences (KJV)

to plan, usually in a bad sense

KJV renders it: consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).

Where it appears

  • Gen 11:6Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
  • Deut 19:19then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
  • Ps 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
  • Ps 31:13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
  • Ps 37:12The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
  • Prov 30:32“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
  • Prov 31:16She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.
  • Jer 4:28For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
  • Jer 51:12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
  • Lam 2:17Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
  • Zech 1:6But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
  • Zech 8:14For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent;
  • Zech 8:15so again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don’t be afraid.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.