חֶשְׁבּוֹן
cheshbon · sum, reckoning
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2808 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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cheshbon (חֶשְׁבּוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sum, reckoning”.
Reckoning, reasoning; the result of adding things up.
How to say it
chesh·bon
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The explanation of things, adding one to another.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned, I and my heart, to know and to explore and to seek wisdom and the reckoning, and to know the wickedness of senselessness and the witlessness of madness.
- Ecclesiastes 7:27
See, this I have found, says Qohelet, adding one to one to find the reckoning,
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
All that your hand finds to do, do it with your strength, for there is no work or reckoning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.