Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2808 - חֶשְׁבּוֹן cheshbon (a reckoning)

Original Word:	חֶשְׁבּוֹן
Transliteration:	cheshbon
Definition:	a reckoning, account
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(khesh-bone')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

account, device, reason

From chashab; properly, contrivance; by implication, intelligence -- account, device, reason.

see HEBREW chashab

Englishman's Concordance

1) account, reasoning, reckoning
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H2803
Same Word by TWOT Number: 767b

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. חֶשְׁבּוֺןnoun masculinereckoning, account (Late Hebrew Aramaic id.) Ecclesiastes 9:10, ׳בקּשׁ חEcclesiastes 7:25, ׳מצא חEcclesiastes 7:27.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2808. חֶשְׁבּוֹן (cheshbon) — 3 Occurrences

Ecclesiastes 7:25
HEB:וּבַקֵּ֥שׁ חָכְמָ֖ה וְחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן וְלָדַ֙עַת֙ רֶ֣שַׁע
NAS: wisdom and an explanation, and to know
KJV: wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know
INT: seek wisdom and an explanation cunning the evil

Ecclesiastes 7:27
HEB:לְאַחַ֖ת לִמְצֹ֥א חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃
NAS: to find an explanation,
KJV: by one, to find out the account:
INT: thing to find an explanation

Ecclesiastes 9:10
HEB:אֵ֨ין מַעֲשֶׂ֤ה וְחֶשְׁבּוֹן֙ וְדַ֣עַת וְחָכְמָ֔ה
KJV: for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge,
INT: there activity device knowledge wisdom

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