Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H2810: חִשָּׁבוֹן

chishshâbôwn · pronounced khish-shaw-bone' · “invention”

Definition

a contrivance, i.e. actual (a warlike machine) or mental (a machination)

KJV translates it as: engine, invention.

Word origin: from H2803 (חָשַׁב);

Extended definition

device, invention

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H2810 is translated

  • war engines of ×1
  • schemes ×1

Bible verses with H2810 (chishshâbôwn)

Chishshâbôwn appears in 2 verses.

  • 2 Chronicles 26:15

    And 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 7:29

    Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.