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לוּחַ

lûwach · H3871 · Hebrew · 43 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. board, plank

    Flat object with a smooth surface; usually made of wood; used for construction or decoration

    Examples

    Exodus 27:8 “You shall make it hollow with planks; as it was shown to you on the mountain, so they shall make it.

    Exodus 38:7 Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.

    1 Kings 7:36 And he engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders cherubim, lions, and palm trees, as there was clear space on each, with wreaths all around.

  2. tablet

    Small, flat tablet, made of stone, on which words were scratched with a stylus; associated with conditions that are permanent and are not likely to change

    Examples

    Exodus 24:12 Now the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the Law and the commandments which I have written for their instruction.”

    Exodus 31:18 When He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God.

    Exodus 32:15 Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets which were written on both sides; they were written on one side and the other.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

24 occurrences in 6 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

21 occurrences in 6 groups

Named alongside itApposition

8 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

13 occurrences in 6 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

4 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

16 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
πλάξ pláx · G4109 · tablet
Greek πλάξ renders Hebrew לוּחַ in contexts referring to flat surfaces, particularly stone tablets (as in the tablets of the Law), representing a direct translation equivalent across the two languages for the core sense of 'tablet/plate.'
Semantic domains 2 entries
Constructions001003002
לוּחַ denotes a flat board or plank used in construction, as in Exodus 27:8's instructions to make the altar hollow with planks, grouping the word with built or fabricated structures.
Scrolls001003001001014
The same word also names the stone tablets of the covenant, as in Exodus 31:18's "two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written by the finger of God," linking the flat writing-surface sense to inscribed documents.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3871. luach לוּחַ noun masculine tablet, board or plank, plate (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic…
H3871. luach
לוּחַ noun masculine tablet, board or plank, plate (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic לוּחָא, ; Arabic ; (modern pronunciation lûµ, lôµ, compare e.g. SpiroArab.-Eng. Vocab. Buhl), Ethiopic , but Assyrian li±û (as if from לחה) in DlHWB 366; see, however, lêjum (lêyum) JägerBAS i, 486); — ׳ל absolute Isa 30:8; construct Pro 3:3-4t.; dual לֻחֹתָ֑יִם Eze 27:5; plural לוחֹת (לֻחֹת לֻחוֺת,) absolute Exo 32:16-17t.; construct Deu 4:13 Deu 4:16t.; —
1 chiefly of stone tablets on which ten words were written Exo 24:12; Exo 31:18b; Exo 32:16 (twice in verse); Exo 32:19 (all E), Exo 34:1 (3 t. in verse); Exo 34:4 (twice in verse); Exo 34:28 (all J), Deu 4:13; Deu 5:19; Deu 9:9-10, Deu 9:11, Deu 9:17; Deu 10:1-2,(twice in verse); Deu 10:3 (twice in verse); Deu 10:4-5, 1Ki 8:9; 2Ch 5:10; ׳ל הָעֵדֻת Exo 31:18a; Exo 32:15; compare Exo 34:29 (all P); ׳ל הַבְּרִית Deu 9:9, Deu 9:11, Deu 9:15; tablet for writing prophecy Isa 30:8 ׅ || (סֵפֶר, Hab 2:2, and figurative, b>לָבְּךָ לוּחַ Pro 3:3; Pro 7:3 (for writing wise counsel), compare Jer 17:1 (inscribing sin of Judah); (verb mostly כָּחַב Exo 31:18b; Exo 32:15; Deu 9:10; ׳כ עַל Exo 34:1, Exo 34:28; Deu 4:13; Deu 5:19; Deu 10:2, Deu 10:4; Pro 3:3; Pro 7:3; Isa 30:8; עַל חָרַשׁ Jer 17:1; כָּרַת followed by accusative Deu 9:9 compare 1Ki 8:9 2Ch 5:10; עַל חָרַת Exo 32:16; עַל בֵּאֵר Hab 2:2).
2 wooden boards, composing altar of tabernacle Exo 27:8; Exo 38:7; planks composing ship (figurative of Tyre) Eze 27:5; cf, אָ֑רֶז לוּחַ עָלָיהָ נָצוּר Son 8:9, of door.
3 (metal) plates on bases of lavers in Solomon's temple 1Ki 7:36.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Scrolls36 occurrencesConstructions5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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