זָמַם zâmam — to plan, usually in a bad sense
Translated in the KJV as consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think.
a primitive root; to plan, usually in a bad sense.
zâmam in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 11Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Participle (active) 1
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
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 ›