Word Summary
cheshbon: a reckoning, account
Original Word: חֶשְׁבּוֹןTransliteration: cheshbon
Phonetic Spelling: (khesh-bone')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a reckoning, account
Meaning: contrivance, intelligence
Strong's Concordance
account, device, reason
From chashab; properly, contrivance; by implication, intelligence -- account, device, reason.
see HEBREW chashab
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2808. cheshbon
I. חֶשְׁבּוֺן noun masculine reckoning, account (Late Hebrew Aramaic id.) Ecclesiastes 9:10, ח ׳בקּשׁ 7:25, ח ׳מצא 7:27.