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שֻׁלְחָןStrong’s H7979

shulchan (shul-chan)

Appears in 62 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shulchan is the Hebrew word usually translated “table”, “tables” and “table of”. It appears in 62 verses of the Old Testament.

“And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.”
Daniel 11:27 KJV
Meaning
  1. Table
How it's translated
  • the table 23
  • tables 10
  • table of 8
  • table my 7
  • a table 5
  • table your 4
  • and a table 3
  • and the table 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 16
  • Ezekiel 9
  • 1 Kings 6
  • 2 Samuel 5
  • 2 Chronicles 5
  • Psalms 4

18 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 62 verses, by book
Leviticus 1
24:6
Numbers 2
3:314:7
Judges 1
1:7
1 Samuel 2
20:2920:34
2 Kings 1
4:10
1 Chronicles 1
28:16
2 Chronicles 5
4:84:199:413:1129:18
Nehemiah 1
5:17
Job 1
36:16
Proverbs 1
9:2
Daniel 1
11:27
Malachi 2
1:71:12
Hebrew dictionary

שֻׁלְחָן shulchan · table

1) table 1a) table 1a1) of king's table, private use, sacred uses

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “table” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TA'BLE, noun

[Latin tabula.]

  1. A flat surface of some extent, or a thing that has a flat surface; as a table of marble.
  2. An article of furniture, consisting usually of a frame with a surface of boards or of marble, supported by legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as for holding dishes of meat, for writing on, etc.
  3. Fare or entertainment of provisions; as, he keeps a good table
  4. The persons sitting at table or partaking of entertainment.
All definitions and other forms of “table”
  1. A tablet; a surface on which any thing is written or engraved. Exodus 32:15“The ten commandments were written on two tables of stone” Exodus 24:12
  2. A picture, or something that exhibits a view of any thing on a flat surface.
  3. Among Christians, the table or Lord's table is the sacrament, or holy communion of the Lord's supper.
  4. The altar of burnt-offering. Malachi 1:7
  5. In architecture, a smooth, simple member or ornament of various forms, most usually in that of a long square.
  6. In perspective, a plain surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon.
  7. In anatomy, a division of the cranium or skull.
  8. In the glass manufacture, a circular sheet of finished glass, usually about four feet in diameter, each weighing from ten to eleven pounds.
  9. In literature, an index; a collection of heads or principal matters contained in a book, with references to the pages where each may be found; as a table of contents.
  10. A synopsis; many particulars brought into one view.
  11. The palm of the hand.
  12. Draughts; small pieces of wood shifted on squares.
  13. In mathematics, tables are systems of numbers calculated to be ready for expediting operations; as a table of logarithms; a multiplication table
  14. Astronomical tables, are computations of the motions, places and other phenomena of the planets, both primary and secondary.
  15. In chimistry, a list or catalogue of substances or their properties; as a table of known acids; a table of acidifiable bases; a table of binary combinations; a table of specific gravities.
  16. In general, any series of numbers formed on mathematical or other correct principles.
  17. A division of the ten commandments; as the first and second tables.
  18. Among jewelers, a table diamond or other precious stone, is one whose upper surface is quite flat, and the sides only cut in angles.
  19. A list or catalogue; as a table of stars.

TA'BLE, verb intransitive

To board; to diet or live at the table of another. Nebuchadnezzar tabled with the beasts.

    TA'BLE, verb transitive

    To form into a table or catalogue; as, to table fines. In England, the chirographer tables the fines of every county, and fixes a copy in some open place of the court.

    1. To board; to supply with food.
    2. To let one piece of timber into another by alternate scores or projections from the middle.

    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.