Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find. 2. (v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine. 3. (v. t.) To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

Multi-Version Concordance Invent (2 Occurrences) Romans 1:30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Amos 6:5 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)