Strong’s H2810 · Hebrew
חִשָּׁבוֹן
chishshâbôwn · khish-shaw-bone'
Origin from חָשַׁב (H2803);
Meaning a contrivance, i.e. actual (a warlike machine) or mental (a machination)
In the King James Version engine, invention.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Chronicles 26:15And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
- Ecclesiastes 7:29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.