# חִשָּׁבוֹן (chishavon)

Israeli respelling: chi-shavon. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2810. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

a contrivance, i.e. actual (a warlike machine) or mental (a machination)

King James renderings: engine, invention.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chishavon-h2810

## Occurrences

- [2 Chronicles 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/15) — 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 with…
- [Ecclesiastes 7:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/29) — Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.