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Scheme [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A plan; a combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

2. We shall never be able to give ourselves a satisfactory account of the divine conduct without forming such a scheme of things as shall take in time and eternity.

3. A project; a contrivance; a plan of something to be done; a design. Thus we say, to form a scheme to lay a scheme to contrive a scheme

4. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

5. A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies; any lineal or mathematical diagram.

Scheme [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To form a plan; to contrive.

Scheme [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To plan; to contrive.

Scheme [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

2. A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.

3. Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

4. A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

Scheme [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To form a scheme or schemes.

Scheme [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.

Schemed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Scheme

Schemeful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Full of schemes or plans.

Schemer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that contrives; a projector; a contriver.

Schemer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.

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Exodus 21:14

But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.

Nehemiah 4:15

And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.

When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.

Esther 7:5

Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?

Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”

Esther 8:3

And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Job 5:12

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

Job 10:3

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

Job 21:27

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

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Psalms 10:2

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Psalms 10:4

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

Psalms 21:11

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

Psalms 26:10

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

Psalms 31:20

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.

Psalms 35:20

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

Psalms 37:7

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.

Psalms 37:12

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

Psalms 83:3

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,

Psalms 140:4

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.

Proverbs 6:18

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,