4 occurrences in 12 translations

'Devised' in the Bible

The woman asked, “Why have you devised something similar against the people of God? When the king spoke as he did about this matter, he has pronounced his own guilt. The king has not brought back his own banished one.

Verse ConceptsReinstating PeopleFound Guilty

for we do surely die, and are as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.

Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfLast ThingsUniversality Of DeathMediatorMortalityHow Death Is InevitableReinstating Peopleextraterrestrials

After the men had left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed out of the well. Then they left and informed King David. They advised David, "Get up and cross the stream quickly, for Ahithophel has devised a plan to catch you."

Verse ConceptsFordsTelling Of Happenings

And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

Verse ConceptsTrapAttempting To Kill Me

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Contrive (2 instances)
Devise (47 instances)
Devised (36 instances)
Forge (3 instances)
Formulate (2 instances)
Invent (1 instance)
Organize (1 instance)
Prepare (226 instances)

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