Invention
חִשָּׁבוֹןStrong’s H2810chishshavon (chish-sha-von)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chishshavon is the Hebrew word usually translated “war engines of” and “schemes”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.”
Meaning
- Device, invention
How it's translated
- war engines of 1
- schemes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חִשָּׁבוֹן chishshavon · invention
device, invention
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “invention” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INVEN'TION, noun
[Latin inventio.]
- The action or operation of finding out something new; the contrivance of that which did not before exist; as the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing; the invention of the orrery. invention differs from discovery. invention is applied to the contrivance and production of something that did not before exist.
- That which is invented.
- Forgery; fiction.
- In painting, the finding or choice of the objects which are to enter into the composition of the piece.
All definitions
- In poetry, it is applied to whatever the poet adds to the history of the subject.
- In rhetoric, the finding and selecting of arguments to prove and illustrate the point in view.
- The power of inventing; that skill or ingenuity which is or may be employed in contriving any thing new.
- Discovery; the finding of things hidden or before unknown. [Less proper.]
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.