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title: חֲשַׁב — think · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: חֲשַׁב (lemma:חֲשַׁב), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: think. BDB 1906: vb. think, account. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲשַׁב

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«חֲשַׁב» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **think** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:חֲשַׁב · **BDB:** חֲשַׁב

### Glosses

considered (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

think [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. think, account [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. think, account (v. BH);— Pt. pass. pl. כְּלָה חֲשִׁיבִין Dn 4:32 like those not accounted of, of no account, Bev Dr.

### Jastrow 1903

חֲשֵׁב: Part. pass to plan, to count, calculate to be planned to be considered, valued is respected [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d1/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** Targ. Gen. L, 20. Targ. Esth. VIII, 3; a. fr.—Pesik. B’shall., p. 82ᵃ (translating Ex. XVIII, 11ᵇ) במחשבה דחַשְׁבוּן איתחשב להון what they had planned (against Israel) was planned against them. Sabb. 3ᵃ קא חֲשִׁיב he counts in; a. fr.—Part. pass. חָשִׁיב, pl. חֲשִׁיבִין = h. חָשׁוּב, v. preced. Targ. Y. Ex. IV, 19; a. fr.—Keth. 8ᵇ ח׳ את וכ׳ thou hast been found worthy to be seized (to suffer) for etc. Gitt. 56ᵇ מאן ח׳ וכ׳ who is highly esteemed in that world (the hereafter)?; a. fr. same, to plan, to count, calculate. Targ. Jer. XXI, 11.—Targ. O. Lev. XXV, 27; a. fr.—Meg. 11ᵇ חַשִּׁיב ועייל וכ׳ count, and include in their place \&c. Pes. 94ᵃ דקא חַשְּׁבֵי דקדמא וכ׳ because they also counted the distances which one walks before dawn and after sunset. Sabb. 74ᵃ וליחַשֵּׁב וכ׳ let him also count the act of pounding; ib. 6ᵇ; a. e. ולִחְשׁוֹב (Pe.); a. fr. \[Y. Pes. IV, end, 31ᶜ מחשבנא v. חֲשַׂךְ.\] אִיחֲשַׁב to be planned. Targ. O. Gen. L, 20.—Pesik. l. c., v. supra. to be considered, valued. Targ. Lev. XVII, 4. Targ. Ps. L, 23; a. fr.—\[Targ. Prov. XXIX, 11 מֵיחֲשַׁב Ms. (ed. Lag. מחשב, Var. מאשב) is respected (v. Pesh. a. l.; ed. Wil. מאכה v. מְאַךְ).\]

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲשַׁב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b2_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 4:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.4.32/)

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וְכָל־דָּיְרֵ֤י אַרְעָא֙ כְּלָ֣ה חֲשִׁיבִ֔ין וּֽכְמִצְבְּיֵ֗הּ עָבֵד֙ בְּחֵ֣יל שְׁמַיָּ֔א וְדָיְרֵ֖י אַרְעָ֑א וְלָ֤א אִיתַי֙ דִּֽי־יְמַחֵ֣א בִידֵ֔הּ וְיֵ֥אמַר לֵ֖הּ מָ֥ה עֲבַֽדְתְּ׃

*Word for word:* and all the.inhabitants of the.earth \[are\].as not considered and as pleases he \[he.is\].doing with the.army of the.heavens and the.inhabitants of the.earth and not there \[is\].who he.will.strike on hand his and he.will.say to him what? have.you.done

*JPS 1917:* And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and He doeth according to His will in the host of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him: What doest Thou?

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