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# לוּחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3871

**tablet** — used 43 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tablet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3871/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לוּחַ: n.m. tablet, board plank, plate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3871/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. tablet, board or plank, plate (NH id., Aramaic לוּחָא, ܠܘܽܚܳܐ; Arabic لَوْحٌ (mod. pron. lûḥ, lôḥ, cf. e.g. SpiroArabic-Eng. Vocab. Buhl), Ethiopic ለውሕ, but Assyrian lêʾu (as if from לחה in DlHWB 366; see, however, lêjum (lêyum) JägerBAS i, 486);—ל׳ abs. Is 30:8; cstr. Pr 3:3 + 4 times; du. לֻחֹתָ֑יִם Ez 27:5; pl. לוּחֹת (לֻחוֹת), לֻחֹת) abs. Ex 32:16 + 17 times; cstr. Dt 4:13 + 16 times;— chiefly of stone tablets on which ten words were written Ex 24:12; 31:18b; 32:16(×2), 19 (all E), 34:1(×3), 4(×2), 28 (all J), Dt 4:13; 5:19; 9:9, 10, 11, 17; 10:1, 2(×2), 3(×2), 4, 5 1 K 8:9 2 Ch 5:10; ל׳ הָעֵדֻת Ex 31:18a; 32:15 cf. v 15, 34:29 (all P); ל׳ הַבְּרִית Dt 9:9, 11, 15; tablet for writing prophecy Is 30:8 (‖ סֵפֶר), Hb 2:2, and fig., לוּחַ לִבְּךָ Pr 3:3; 7:3 (for writing wise counsel), cf. Je 17:1 (inscribing sin of Judah); (vb. mostly כָּתַב Ex 31:18b; 32:15; Dt 9:10; כ׳ עַל Ex 34:1, 28; Dt 4:13; 5:19; 10:2, 4 Pr 3:3; 7:3; Is 30:8; חָרַשׁ עַל Je 17:1; כָּרַת sq. acc. Dt 9:9 cf. 1 K 8:9 = 2 Ch 5:10; חָרַת עַל Ex 32:16; בֵּאֵר עַל Hb 2:2). wooden boards, composing altar of tabern. Ex 27:8; 38:7; planks composing ship (fig. of Tyre) Ez 27:5; cf. נָצוּר עָלֶיהָ לוּחַ אָ֑רֶז Ct 8:9, of door. (metal) plates on bases of lavers in Solomon’s temple 1 K 7:36.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 32 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tablets (23); the tablets (11); the tablet (3).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.3/#tree)

קָשְׁרֵ֥ם עַל־אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑יךָ כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם עַל־ל֥וּחַ לִבֶּֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* bind them on fingers your write them on the.tablet your.heart your

*JPS 1917:* Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.

[Exodus 27:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.8/#tree)

נְב֥וּב לֻחֹ֖ת תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֹת֑וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר הֶרְאָ֥ה אֹתְךָ֛ בָּהָ֖ר כֵּ֥ן יַעֲשֽׂוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* hollow of.boards you.will.make it just as he.showed you on the mountain so they.will.do

*JPS 1917:* Hollow with planks shalt thou make it; as it hath been shown thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3871.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3871/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).