Limitless Word
מְזִמָּהmᵉzimmâh/mez-im-maw'/
HebrewH420919 occurrences (KJV)

a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity)

KJV renders it: (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.

Where it appears

  • Job 21:27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
  • Job 42:2“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
  • Ps 10:2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
  • Ps 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
  • Ps 21:11For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
  • Ps 37:7Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
  • Ps 139:20For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
  • Prov 1:4to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:
  • Prov 2:11Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
  • Prov 3:21My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
  • Prov 5:2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
  • Prov 8:12“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.
  • Prov 12:2A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.
  • Prov 14:17He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
  • Prov 24:8One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
  • Jer 11:15What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”
  • Jer 23:20Yahweh’s anger shall not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
  • Jer 30:24The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.”
  • Jer 51:11“Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.

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