Tablet
לוּחַStrong’s H3871luach (lu-ach)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Luach is the Hebrew word usually translated “tablets of”, “tablets” and “tablet of”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.”
Meaning
- Board, slab, tablet, planktablets (of stone) · boards (of wood) · plate (of metal)
How it's translated
- tablets of 19
- the tablets 13
- tablet of 3
- boards 2
- tablets 1
- and the tablets 1
- the plates of 1
- a board of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 12
- Exodus 11
- 1 Kings 2
- Proverbs 2
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Song of Solomon 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 27:8Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
- Exodus 31:18And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
- Exodus 32:15And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
- Exodus 32:16And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
- Exodus 32:19And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
- Exodus 34:1And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
Hebrew dictionary
לוּחַ luach · tablet
1) board, slab, tablet, plank 1a) tablets (of stone) 1b) boards (of wood) 1c) plate (of metal)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tablet” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TAB'LET, noun
A small table or flat surface.
- Something flat on which to write, paint, draw or engrave.
- A medicine in a square form.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.