Strong’s H4209 · Hebrew
מְזִמָּה
mᵉzimmâh · mez-im-maw'
Origin from זָמַם (H2161);
Meaning a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity)
In the King James Version (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.
In 19 verses of the King James Version
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- Job 42:2I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
- Psalms 10:2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Psalms 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
- Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
- Psalms 37:7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
- Psalms 139:20For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
- Proverbs 1:4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
- Proverbs 2:11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
- Proverbs 3:21My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
- Proverbs 5:2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
- Proverbs 8:12I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
- Proverbs 12:2A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
- Proverbs 14:17He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
- Proverbs 24:8He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
- Jeremiah 11:15What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
- Jeremiah 23:20The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
- Jeremiah 30:24The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
- Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.