H3871 - לוּחַ (lûwach)

H3871 לוּחַ (lûwach) loo'-akh

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

tablet

Strong's Definition

probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal

Derivation: or לֻחַ; from a primitive root;

KJV Usage: board, plate, table.

TWOT Reference: 1091a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) board, slab, tablet, plank

1a) tablets (of stone)

1b) boards (of wood)

1c) plate (of metal)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G746 G4109 G4114 G4548

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) board, slab, tablet, plank 1a) tablets (of stone) 1b) boards (of wood) 1c) plate (of metal)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

לֻחַ / לוּחַ lûach BDB Definition: 1) board, slab, tablet, plank 1a) tablets (of stone) 1b) boards (of wood) 1c) plate (of metal) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 1091a Total KJV Occurrences: 43

Bible Occurrences (32)

24:12 27:8 31:18 32:15 32:16 32:19 34:1 34:4 34:28 34:29 38:7

4:13 5:22 9:9 9:10 9:11 9:15 9:17 10:1 10:2 10:3 10:4 10:5

7:36 8:9

5:10

3:3 7:3

30:8

17:1

27:5

2:2

Exodus 24:12

Then the LORD said to Moses, Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.

Exodus 27:8

Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain....

Exodus 31:18

When [the LORD] had finished speaking with [Moses] on Mount Sinai, He gave... [him] the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

Exodus 32:15

Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands.... They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

Exodus 32:16

The tablets were the work of God,... and the writing [was] the writing of God,... engraved on the tablets.

Exodus 32:19

As [Moses] approached... the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

Exodus 34:1

Then the LORD said to Moses, Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exodus 34:4

So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up... Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.