Quick Definition
a tablet, flat surface
Strong's Definition
a moulding-board, i.e. flat surface ("plate", or tablet, literally or figuratively)
Derivation: from G4111 (πλάσσω);
KJV Usage: table
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πλάξ, πλακος, ἡ ((akin to πλάτος, etc.; Fick 4:161)), a flat thing, broad tablet, plane, level surface (as of the sea) (cf. our plate) (Pindar, Tragg., others; the Sept. for μεΜηΗ): αἱ πλάκες τῆς διαθήκης (see διαθήκη, 2, p. 136b), Heb_9:4; οὐκ ἐν πλαξί λιθίναις (tables of stone, such as those on which the law of Moses was written), ἀλλ' ἐν πλαξί καρδίας σαρκίναις, 2Co_3:3.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πλάξ plax 3 x
a flat broad surface; a table, tablet, 2Co_3:3 ; Heb_9:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πλάξ , -ακός , ἡ ,
[in LXX for H3871 ;]
anything flat and broad.
1. a plain (poλt.).
2. In late writers ( Luc ., al. ), a flat stone, a tablet: 2Co_3:3 , Heb_9:4 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πλάξ [page 516]
The late use of πλάξ (for στήλη ) as a tablet for writing purposes ( 2Co_3:3 , Heb_9:4 ) is seen in an inscr. giving the right of asylum to a Jewish synagogue, Chrest. I. 54 .1 ff. βασιλίσσης καὶ βασιλέως προσταξάντων ἀντὶ τῆς προανακεμένης περὶ τῆς ἀναθέσεως τῆς προσευχῆς πλακὸς ἡ ὑπογεγραμμένη ἐπιγραφήτω· Βασιλεὺς Πτολεμαῖος Εὐεργέτης τὴν προσευχὴν ἄσυλον . The date is uncertain, but Wilcken thinks the reference is to Euergetes I. (B.C. 246 221), and regards this usage of πλάξ as characteristic of the Egyptian Κοινή (cf. the LXX use of πλάκες for the tables of the Law); see his note ad l.c. and more recently UPZ i. p. 404. We may also note OGIS 672 .12 (A.D. 80) ἐτέθησαν παρ᾽ ἑκάτερα τῶν τοίχων πλάκες ἐπιγεγραμμέναι δεκατέσσρες , Kaibel 828 .1 (ii/A.D.) σοὶ πλάκα [τ ]ήν [δ᾽ ἀν [έθ ]ηκε , and P Osl I. 1 .340 (iv/A.D.) τὸν στρόβ̣ι̣λ̣ο̣ν̣ τῆς πλακὸς τοῦ βαλανίου τούτου , the top (cone) of the tablet of the bath, where, however, the exact meaning of πλάξ is by no means clear, see the editor s note. For πλάξ used of inscribed fragments of limestone, see Wilcken Ostr . i. p. 8 note. MGr πλάκα , slab (e.g. of a tomb).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
πλάξ "a flat surface, flat land, a plain", Aesch. ; πόντου πλάξ the ocean- "plain", Pind. ; αἰθερία πλάξ Eur. : "the flat top of a hill, table-land", Soph. "a flat stone, tablet", Luc. , NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
πλάξ, -ακός, ἡ
[in LXX for לוּחַ ;]
anything flat and broad.
__1. a plain (poët.).
__2. In late writers (Luc., al.), a flat stone, a tablet: 2Co.3:3, Heb.9:4.†
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