חָשַׁב châshab — properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate
Translated in the KJV as account, conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold.
a primitive root; properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute.
châshab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 25Perfect (qatal) 23Imperfect (yiqtol) 15Wayyiqtol 4Infinitive construct 4Jussive 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Cohortative 1
And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Perfect (qatal) 11Participle (active) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
Pi'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Perfect (qatal) 3Wayyiqtol 2Participle (active) 1
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›