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# שֻׁלְחָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7979

**table** — used 71 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

table [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7979/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֻׁלְחָן: n.m. table [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7979/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 25:23 table (on form of word cf. GFMl.c.; proposes (v. supr.) skin or leather mat spread on ground, v. also, on early Sem. ‘table,’ Thes1417 WeSkizzen iv. 157 RSSem i. 184; 2nd ed. 201 KennedyEncy. Bib. iii. 2991);—abs. שׁ׳ 1 S 20:34 +; cstr. שֻׁלְחַן 1 K 5:7 +; sf. שֻׁלְחָנִי Ju 1:7 +, etc.; pl. שֻׁלְחָנוֹת Is 28:8 +, cstr. שֻׁלְחֲנוֹת 1 Ch 28:16(×2);— table for king’s repast Ju 1:7 (c. תַּחַת), 1 S 20:29, 34; 2 S 9:11 (read שׁ׳ דָּוִד 𝔊 Th We Dr and mod.), v 13; 19:29; 1 K 2:7; 5:1; 18:19; 10:5 = 2 Ch 9:4, cf. Is 21:5 (c. עָרַךְ (q.v. 1 c) arrange); c. עַל 2 S 9:7, 10, 11 Dn 11:27; for governor Ne 5:17 (c. עַל). for private use 1 K 13:20 (c. אֶל), Jb 36:16 ψ 23:5 (fig., c. עָרַךְ), cf. 78:19 (id.), 128:3, also (in bedroom) 2 K 4:10; of revellers Is 28:8, cf. ψ 69:23 (fig.), of wisdom (fig.), of wisdom (fig.) Pr 9:2. especially Ez P for sacred uses: in tab. Ex 25:23 + 17 times 25–40, Nu 3:31, שֻׁלְחַן הַפָּנִים Nu 4:7 (cf. 2 Ch 29:18 infr.); הַשּׁ׳ הַטָּהֹר Lv 24:6 (cf. 2 Ch 13:11 infr.); in Sol.’s temple 1 K 7:48; 2 Ch 29:18, also (10 in no.) 4:8, 19; 13:11, cf. 1 Ch 28:16(×4), also Ez 23:41 (c. עָרַךְ); in Ezekiel’s temple Ez 40:39(×2) + 6 times Ez 40 (8 in no.), 40:42 (of stone, 4 in no.); like altar 41:22, = altar of burnt-offering 44:16; in second temple, שֻׁלְחַן י׳ Mal 1:7, שׁ׳ אֲדֹנָי v 12; for idolatrous meal Is 65:11; fig. of י׳’s sacrif. feast Ez 39:20 (eschatol.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 44 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: table (36); tables (11); a table (9).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 28:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.8/#tree)

כִּ֚י כָּל־שֻׁלְחָנ֔וֹת מָלְא֖וּ קִ֣יא צֹאָ֑ה בְּלִ֖י מָקֽוֹם׃ס

*Word for word:* (dm) all \[the\].tables they.are.full vomit filth not room

*JPS 1917:* For all tables are full of filthy vomit, and no place is clean.

[Proverbs 9:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.2/#tree)

טָבְחָ֣ה טִ֭בְחָהּ מָסְכָ֣ה יֵינָ֑הּ אַ֝֗ף עָֽרְכָ֥ה שֻׁלְחָנָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* she.has.slaughtered slaughter her she.has.mixed wine her also she.has.arranged table her

*JPS 1917:* She hath prepared her meat, she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7979.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7979/): 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).