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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Imagine:

i-maj'-in (chashabh; meletao): The word most frequently translated "to imagine" in the Old Testament, only in the King James Version and the English Revised Version, not in the American Standard Revised Version, is chashabh, "to bind," "combine," "think" (Job 6:26; Ps 10:2; 21:11; 140:2; Ho 7:15; Na 1:9,11; Zec 7:10; 8:17); we have also haghah in the King James Version and the English Revised Version, but not in the American Standard Revised Version, "to meditate," "mutter," "speak" (Ps 2:1; 38:12); zamam, "to devise" (Ge 11:6 the King James Version); charash, "to grave," "devise" (Pr 12:20 the King James Version); hathath, "to break in upon," to "attack unjustly" (Ps 62:3 the King James Version); meletao, "to meditate" (Ac 4:25).

Written by W. L. Walker

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Imagine:

signifies "to care for" (melete, "care"); then, "to attend to," "be diligent in," 1Ti 4:15, RV, i.e., to practice as the result of devising or planning; thirdly, "to ponder," "imagine," Act 4:25, RV, marg., "meditate." Some inferior mss. have it in Mar 13:11.
See DILIGENT, MEDITATE.