cha.shav denotes forming plans or designs, making an assessment, and regarding something in a stated way.

The verb chiefly appears where people form plans, including hostile plots, constructive measures, and intended outcomes. It also marks reckoning or assessment, the regard given to persons or things, and the making of crafted designs; passive forms describe what is counted or regarded as something.

1. Forming plans, plots, or intended outcomes · dominant

   Qal forms occur in clauses about deliberate action: Saul's purpose to make David fall in 1 Samuel 18:25, Haman's scheme against the Jews in Esther 8:3, and plans against strongholds in Daniel 11:24. The same use can describe a constructive measure, since 2 Samuel 14:14 says that God devises means so that the banished one will not remain banished; hostile planning is explicit in Jeremiah 11:19.

   1 Samuel 18:252 Samuel 14:14Esther 8:3Daniel 11:24Jeremiah 11:19Ezekiel 38:10
2. Reckoning, computing, or assessing · common

   The verb is used for an evaluation assigned to a person, object, or amount. In Genesis 15:6 the APB renders the clause "he reckoned it to him as righteousness," while Leviticus 25:27 concerns computing the years of a sale; 1 Kings 10:21 assesses silver's value.

   Genesis 15:6Leviticus 25:271 Kings 10:212 Kings 22:7Job 13:24Job 33:10
3. Regarding or classifying as something · common

   Niphal forms present persons, places, or things as regarded under a designation. Deuteronomy 2:11 says that a people are regarded as Rephaim, 2 Samuel 4:2 says Beeroth is reckoned as part of Benjamin, and Isaiah 29:17 describes a plantation regarded as wood.

   Deuteronomy 2:11Deuteronomy 2:202 Samuel 4:2Genesis 31:15Isaiah 29:17Hosea 8:12
4. Thinking or intending in one's heart · occasional

   Qal forms can introduce an inward judgment or intention rather than an external scheme. Eli reaches a judgment about Hannah in 1 Samuel 1:13; Genesis 50:20 contrasts what Joseph's brothers intended with what God intended; Isaiah 10:7 locates the intention in the heart.

   1 Samuel 1:13Genesis 50:20Isaiah 10:7Isaiah 13:17Isaiah 53:3Job 6:26
5. Designing skilled crafted work · occasional

   Participles and an infinitive occur in instructions and descriptions of craftsmanship. Exodus 26:1 calls the curtains work of a designer, Exodus 31:4 places the infinitive alongside work in metals, and Exodus 35:35 names makers of designs among skilled workers.

   Exodus 26:1Exodus 28:6Exodus 31:4Exodus 35:35Exodus 36:352 Chronicles 26:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB uses varied wording, including "planned," "devised," "reckoned," "regarded," "count," "compute," and "designer." Because it translates whole verses rather than aligning each token, these renderings confirm the clauses' contexts but do not by themselves mark a separate sense in every instance.