חֶשְׁבּוֹן
cheshbôwn · H2808 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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reasoning
Action by which humans exercise their mind with the purpose of achieving something
ExamplesEcclesiastes 7:25 I directed my mind to know and to investigate, and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of foolishness and the foolishness of insanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:27 “Behold, I have discovered this,” says the Preacher, “by adding one thing to another to find an explanation,
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בָּקַשׁto seek, to search, to look for 1
- מָצָאto find 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַיִןthere is no, not 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- מְזִמָּה mᵉzimmâh · H4209 · plan, scheme, resourcefulness
- Hebrew noun denoting thought, device, or scheme (can be neutral or negative); shares the 'device' sense with חֶשְׁבּוֹן, though מְזִמָּה often carries connotations of deliberate planning or discretion
In the other Testament 2 words
- λογισμός logismós · G3053 · to think about, to reason about, to ponder
- Greek noun denoting reasoning, thought, or calculation; closely parallels the Hebrew חֶשְׁבּוֹן in its sense of reasoned account or device/scheme of the mind (cf. 2 Cor 10:5)
- λόγος lógos · G3056 · word, saying, message
- Greek noun with a broad semantic range including 'account' and 'reason,' matching the Hebrew target's gloss precisely in contexts requiring rendering of accounts or reasoned explanation
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Think002004002013
- חֶשְׁבּוֹן denotes a reckoning, scheme, or explanation arrived at through reflection, as in the Preacher's search to know the 'scheme of things' and the explanation behind human folly (Ecclesiastes 7:25, 27).
- Names of Locations003001010
- This entry carries no independent "Names of Locations" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of חֶשְׁבּוֹן (Ecclesiastes 7:25, 7:27, 9:10) denotes an account, reckoning, or explanation as an abstract noun, not a place name. The domain is bundle-shared with the identically-spelled place name Heshbon (חֶשְׁבּוֹן (Cheshbôwn, H2809)). See חֶשְׁבּוֹן (Cheshbôwn, H2809).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2808. cheshbon I. חֶשְׁבּוֺן noun masculine reckoning, account (Late Hebrew Aramaic id.)…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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