'Thinking' in the Bible

and he threw it, thinking, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David got away from him twice.

Saul told David, “Here is my oldest daughter Merab. I’ll give her to you as a wife, if you will be a warrior for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “My hand doesn’t need to be against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

So Achish trusted David, thinking, “Since he has made himself detestable to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”