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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
signifies "to care for" (melete, "care"); then, "to attend to," "be diligent in," 1—Timothy 4:15 , RV, i.e., to practice as the result of devising or planning; thirdly, "to ponder," "imagine," Acts 4:25 , RV, marg., "meditate." Some inferior mss. have it in Mark 13:11 . See Diligent , Meditate.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.
(2): ( v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.
(3): ( v. t.) To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.
(4): ( v. t.) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.
(5): ( v. i.) To think; to suppose.
King James Dictionary [3]
Imag'Ine, L imaginor, from imago, image.
1. To form a notion or idea in the mind to fancy. We can imagine the figure of a horse's head united to a human body.
In this sense, fancy is the more proper word.
2. To form ideas or representations in the mind, by modifying and combining our conceptions. 3. To contrive in purpose to scheme to devise.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? Psalms 62
IMAG'INE, To conceive to have a notion or idea. I cannot imagine how this should have happened.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
i - maj´in ( חשב , ḥāshabh ; μελετάω , meletáō ): 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 ḥāshabh , "to bind," "combine," "think" ( Job 6:26; Psalm 10:2; Psalm 21:11; Psalm 140:2; Hosea 7:15; Nahum 1:9 , Nahum 1:11; Zechariah 7:10; Zechariah 8:17 ); we have also hāghāh in the King James Version and the English Revised Version, but not in the American Standard Revised Version, "to meditate," "mutter," "speak" ( Psalm 2:1; Psalm 38:12 ); zāmam , "to devise" ( Genesis 11:6 the King James Version); ḥārash , "to grave," "devise" ( Proverbs 12:20 the King James Version); hāthath , "to break in upon," to "attack unjustly" ( Psalm 62:3 the King James Version); meletaō , "to meditate" ( Acts 4:25 ).
