Board
קֶ֫רֶשׁStrong’s H7175qeresh (qe-resh)
Appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qeresh is the Hebrew word usually translated “frame”, “frames” and “frames of”. It appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.”
Meaning
- Board, boards, plankboard · boards
How it's translated
- the frame 16
- the frames 9
- frames 8
- for frames of 6
- frames of 4
- frames its 3
- to the frame 2
- frame 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 31
- Numbers 2
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:16Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
- Exodus 26:17Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
- Exodus 26:18And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
- Exodus 26:19And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
- Exodus 26:20And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
- Exodus 26:21And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫רֶשׁ qeresh · board
1) board, boards, plank 1a) board 1b) boards
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “board” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOARD, noun
- A piece of timber sawed thin and of considerable length and breadth, compared with the thickness, used for building and other purposes.
- A table.
- Entertainment; food; diet; as, the price of board is two, five, or seven dollars a week.
- A table at which a council or court is held; hence a council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting; as a board of directors.
All definitions and other forms of “board”
- The desk of a ship; the interior part of a ship or boat; used in the phrase, on board aboard.
- The side of a ship.
- The line over which a ship runs between tack and tack.
- A table for artificers to sit or work on.
- A table or frame for a game; as a chess board etc.
- A body of men constituting a quorum in session; a court, or council; as a board of trustees; a board of officers.
BOARD, verb transitive
To lay or spread with boards; to cover with boards.
- To enter a ship by force in combat, which answers to storming a city or fort on land.
- To attack; to make the first attempt upon a man.
- To place at board for a compensation, as a lodger.
- To furnish with food, or food and lodging, for a compensation; as, a man boards ten students.
BOARD, verb intransitive
To receive food or diet as a lodger or without lodgings, for a compensation; as, he boards at the moderate price of two dollars a week.
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.