Strong's Hebrew · H2810

חִשָּׁבוֹן

chishshâbôwn · khish-shaw-bone'

engine, invention.

Definition

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

Derivation

from H2803 (חָשַׁב);

Appears 2 times in Scripture

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

2 Chronicles 26:15

And in Jerusalem he made skillfully designed devices to shoot arrows and catapult large stones from the towers and corners. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was helped tremendously until he became powerful.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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