Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2808
חֶשְׁבּוֹן
cheshbonkhesh-bone'
explanation
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: cheshbôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2808is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2808
properly, contrivance; by implication, intelligence
The King James renders it: account, device, reason.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
cheshbon is rendered "explanation". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ecclesiastes 7:25I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
Ecclesiastes 7:25וְחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- an explanation1
- and an explanation1
- and explanation1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֶשְׁכָה | cheshkah | dark | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן1
- וְחֶשְׁבּוֹן֙1
- חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
Ecclesiastes
three uses
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
- וְחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹןvecheshbonconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and an explanation
“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
- חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃cheshbonnoun · masculine singulartagged: an explanation
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- וְחֶשְׁבּוֹן֙vecheshbonconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and explanation
The letters
Gematria 366· 1,016 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.