Lexical Summary chishshabon: device, invention Original Word: חִשָּׁבּוֹןTransliteration: chishshabon Phonetic Spelling: (khish-shaw-bone') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: device, invention Meaning: a contrivance, actual, mental Strong's Concordance engine, invention From chashab; a contrivance, i.e. Actual (a warlike machine) or mental (a machination) -- engine, invention. see HEBREW chashab Brown-Driver-Briggs H2810. chishshabon [חִשָּׁבוֺן] noun masculine device, invention (compare LagBN 200) — only plural absolute חִשְּׁבֹנוֺת; רַבִּים חִשְּׁבֹנוֺת בִקְשׁוּ וְהֵמָּה יָשָׁר אֶתהָֿאָדָם הָאֱלֹהִים עָשָׁה Ecclesiastes 7:29 God made mankind upright but they sought out many devices; חֹוֺשֵׁב מַחֲשֶׁבֶת חִשְּׁבֹנוֺת וַיַּעַשׂ2 Chronicles 26:15 and he made contrivances (i.e. engines of war for hurling stones and arrows, see vb) the invention of inventive men. |
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