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# חֶשְׁבּוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2808

**reckoning** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

reckoning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2808/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶשְׁבּוֹן: n.m. reckoning, account [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2808/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. reckoning, account (NH Aramaic id.) Ec 9:10, בקּשׁ ח׳ Ec 7:25, מצא ח׳ Ec 7:27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: scheme of things (2); \[the\] scheme of things (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 7:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.27/#tree)

רְאֵה֙ זֶ֣ה מָצָ֔אתִי אָמְרָ֖ה קֹהֶ֑לֶת אַחַ֥ת לְאַחַ֖ת לִמְצֹ֥א חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* consider this I.have.found she.said Teacher one to one to find \[the\].scheme.of.things

*JPS 1917:* Behold, this have I found, saith Koheleth, adding one thing to another, to find out the account;

[Ecclesiastes 7:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.25/#tree)

סַבּ֨וֹתִֽי אֲנִ֤י וְלִבִּי֙ לָדַ֣עַת וְלָת֔וּר וּבַקֵּ֥שׁ חָכְמָ֖ה וְחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן וְלָדַ֙עַת֙ רֶ֣שַׁע כֶּ֔סֶל וְהַסִּכְל֖וּת הוֹלֵלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* I.turned I (and) heart my to know and to examine and to.seek wisdom and.\[the\] scheme.of.things and to know wickedness stupidity and the folly madness(es)

*JPS 1917:* I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2808/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).