'Imagine' in the Bible

Then I sent to him, saying, "There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart."

And Mordecai bade to answer Esther: Imagine not in thy heart that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

"Don't imagine that because you are part of the king's household you will be the one Jew who will escape. If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear from another source, while you and your father's household perish. It may very well be that you have achieved royal status for such a time as this!"

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,“Because your heart is lifted upAnd you have said and thought, ‘I am a god,I sit in the seat of the godsIn the heart of the seas’;Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God,Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

and do not imagine that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

When you pray, don’t babble like the idolaters, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.

These people are not drunk, as you assume, since it is [only] the third hour of the day (9:00 a.m.);

Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

Since then we are God's offspring, we ought not to imagine that His nature resembles gold or silver or marble, or anything sculptured by the art and inventive faculty of man.

But do you think this, O man, when you judge and condemn those who practice such things, and yet do the same yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment and elude His verdict?

Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us

Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me,

Then God's peace, which goes far beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your hearts and minds in union with the Messiah Jesus.

and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.

For such a person ought not to think or expect that he will receive anything [at all] from the Lord,