2808 - cheshbon

Strong's Concordance

Original word: חֶשְׁבּוֹן
Transliteration: cheshbon
Definition (short): explanation
Definition (full): contrivance, intelligence

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from chashab
Definition: a reckoning, account
NASB Translation: explanation (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From chashab; properly, contrivance; by implication, intelligence -- account, device, reason.

see HEBREW chashab

KJV: 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:
NASB: I directed my mind to know, to investigate and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of folly and the foolishness of madness.
KJV: Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
NASB: "Behold, I have discovered this," says the Preacher, "adding one thing to another to find an explanation,