Explanation
חֶשְׁבּוֹןStrong’s H2808cheshbon (chesh-bon)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cheshbon is the Hebrew word usually translated “explanation”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:”
Meaning
- Account, reasoning, reckoning
How it's translated
- and an explanation 1
- an explanation 1
- and explanation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 3
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
חֶשְׁבּוֹן cheshbon · explanation
account, reasoning, reckoning
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “explanation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EXPLANA'TION, noun
[Latin explanatio.]
The act of explaining, expounding or interpreting; exposition; illustration; interpretation; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as the explanation of a passage in scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
- The sense given by an expounder or interpreter.
- A mutual exposition of terms, meaning or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding and reconcile differences.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.