זִימָּה ², thought, plan, counsel; (in an evil sense) cunning, evil plan. Ab. Zar. 17ᵇ (ref. to מזמה, Prov. II, 11, and reading מִזִּ׳) מאי מזי׳ וכ׳ what do you understand by mizzimmah? Do you mean the Law in which the word zimmah is used in the sense of counsel (in Lev. XVIII, 17) since it is translated (in Targ. O.) ‘counsel of the wicked’ &c.?—Then it ought to read zimmah (divine counsel shall guard thee).—(Ans.) ה"ק מדבר ז׳ וכ׳, v. preced. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 2).—Deut. R. s. 2 (ref. to Ez. XXII, 11) מאי בזי׳ במחשבה what does this b’zimmah mean? With reasoning.