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Lexicon :: Strong's H3871 - lûaḥ

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לוּחַ
Transliteration
lûaḥ
Pronunciation
loo'-akh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1091a

Strong’s Definitions

לוּחַ lûwach, loo'-akh; or לֻחַ luach; from a primitive root; probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal:—board, plate, table.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 43x

The KJV translates Strong's H3871 in the following manner: tables (38x), boards (4x), plates (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 43x
The KJV translates Strong's H3871 in the following manner: tables (38x), boards (4x), plates (1x).
  1. board, slab, tablet, plank

    1. tablets (of stone)

    2. boards (of wood)

    3. plate (of metal)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לוּחַ lûwach, loo'-akh; or לֻחַ luach; from a primitive root; probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal:—board, plate, table.
STRONGS H3871: Abbreviations
לוּחַ noun masculine tablet, board or plank, plate (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic לוּחָא, bdb053109; Arabic bdb053110; (modern pronunciation lûḥ, lôḥ, compare e.g. SpiroArab.-Eng. Vocab. Buhl), Ethiopic bdb053111, but Assyrian li’û (as if from לחה) in DlHWB 366; see, however, lêjum (lêyum) JägerBAS i, 486); — ל׳ absolute Isaiah 30:8; construct Proverbs 3:3 + 4 times; dual לֻחֹתָ֑יִם Ezekiel 27:5; plural לוחֹת (לֻחוֺת, לֻחֹת) absolute Exodus 32:16 + 17 times; construct Deuteronomy 4:13 + 16 times; —
1. chiefly of stone tablets on which ten words were written Exodus 24:12; Exodus 31:18b; Exodus 32:16 (twice in verse); Exodus 32:19 (all E), Exodus 34:1 (3 times in verse); Exodus 34:4 (twice in verse); Exodus 34:28 (all J), Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 5:19; Deuteronomy 9:9, 10, 11, 17; Deuteronomy 10:1, 2(twice in verse); Deuteronomy 10:3 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 10:4, 5; 1 Kings 8:9; 2 Chronicles 5:10; הָעֵדֻת ל׳ Exodus 31:18a; Exodus 32:15; compare Exodus 34:29 (all P); הַבְּרִית ל׳ Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 15; tablet for writing prophecy Isaiah 30:8 ׅ || (סֵפֶר, Habakkuk 2:2, and figurative, b>לוּחַ לָבְּךָ Proverbs 3:3; Proverbs 7:3 (for writing wise counsel), compare Jeremiah 17:1 (inscribing sin of Judah); (verb mostly כָּחַב Exodus 31:18b; Exodus 32:15; Deuteronomy 9:10; עַל כ׳ Exodus 34:1, 28; Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 5:19; Deuteronomy 10:2, 4; Proverbs 3:3; Proverbs 7:3; Isaiah 30:8; חָרַשׁ עַל Jeremiah 17:1; כָּרַת followed by accusative Deuteronomy 9:9 compare 1 Kings 8:9 2 Chronicles 5:10; חָרַת עַל Exodus 32:16; בֵּאֵר עַל Habakkuk 2:2).
2. wooden boards, composing altar of tabernacle Exodus 27:8; Exodus 38:7; planks composing ship (figurative of Tyre) Ezekiel 27:5; compare נָצוּר עָלָיהָ לוּחַ אָ֑רֶז Songs 8:9, of door.
3. (metal) plates on bases of lavers in Solomon's temple 1 Kings 7:36.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

24:12; 27:8; 31:18; 31:18; 31:18; 32:15; 32:15; 32:16; 32:16; 32:16; 32:19; 34:1; 34:1; 34:4; 34:28; 34:28; 34:29; 38:7

Deuteronomy

4:13; 4:13; 4:13; 5:19; 5:19; 9:9; 9:9; 9:9; 9:10; 9:10; 9:11; 9:11; 9:15; 9:17; 10:1; 10:2; 10:2; 10:3; 10:4; 10:4; 10:5

1 Kings

7:36; 8:9; 8:9

2 Chronicles

5:10; 5:10

Proverbs

3:3; 3:3; 3:3; 7:3; 7:3

Song of Songs

8:9

Isaiah

30:8; 30:8; 30:8

Jeremiah

17:1; 17:1

Ezekiel

27:5; 27:5

Habakkuk

2:2; 2:2

H3871

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3871 matches the Hebrew לוּחַ (lûaḥ),
which occurs 43 times in 33 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 -

Now Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and [fn]remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets H3871 [fn]with the [fn]law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:8 - “You shall make it hollow with planks H3871; as it was shown to you in the mountain, so they shall make it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18 -

When He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets H3871 of the testimony, tablets H3871 of stone, written by the finger of God.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15 -

Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain. And the two tablets H3871 of the testimony were in his hand, tablets H3871 which were written on both [fn]sides; they were written on one side and the other.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:16 - Now the tablets H3871 were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets H3871.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 -

Now it happened, as soon as [fn]Moses came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets H3871 from his hands and shattered them [fn]at the foot of the mountain.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 -

Now Yahweh said to Moses, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets H3871 like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets H3871 the words that were on the former tablets H3871 which you shattered.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:4 - So he carved out two stone tablets H3871 like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets H3871 in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - So he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And [fn]he wrote on the tablets H3871 the words of the covenant, the Ten [fn]Commandments.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 -

Now it happened when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets H3871 of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:7 - He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks H3871.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13 - “So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to do, that is, the Ten [fn]Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets H3871 of stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 -

“These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the dense gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets H3871 of stone and gave them to me.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - “When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets H3871 of stone, the tablets H3871 of the covenant which Yahweh had cut with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:10 - “And Yahweh gave me the two tablets H3871 of stone written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which Yahweh had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - “Now it happened at the end of forty days and nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tablets H3871 of stone, the tablets H3871 of the covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:15 -

“So I turned and came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets H3871 of the covenant were in my two hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17 - “And I took hold of the two tablets H3871 and threw them from my hands and shattered them before your eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 -

“At that time Yahweh said to me, ‘Carve out for yourself two tablets H3871 of stone like the former ones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood for yourself.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:2 - ‘And I will write on the tablets H3871 the words that were on the former tablets H3871 which you shattered, and you shall put them in the ark.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - “So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two tablets H3871 of stone like the former ones and went up on the mountain with the two tablets H3871 in my hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - “And He wrote on the tablets H3871, like the former writing, the Ten [fn]Commandments which Yahweh had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:5 - “Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets H3871 in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as Yahweh commanded me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:36 - And he engraved on the plates H3871 of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets H3871 of stone which Moses laid there at Horeb, where Yahweh cut a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:10 - There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets H3871 which Moses put there at Horeb, where Yahweh cut a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:3 -

Do not let lovingkindness and truth forsake you;

Bind them around your neck,

Write them on the tablet H3871 of your heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:3 -

Bind them on your fingers;

Write them on the tablet H3871 of your heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:9 -

“If she is a wall,

We will build on her a battlement of silver;

But if she is a door,

We will barricade her with planks H3871 of cedar.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8 -

Now go, write it on a tablet H3871 before them

And inscribe it on a scroll,

That it may be in the time to come

[fn]As a witness forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:1 -

The sin of Judah is written down with an iron stylus;

With a diamond point it is engraved upon the tablet H3871 of their heart

And on the horns of [fn]their altars,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:5 -

“They have [fn]made all your planks H3871 of fir trees from Senir;

They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:2 -

Then Yahweh answered me and said,

“Write down the vision

And write it on tablets H3871 distinctly,

That [fn]the one who [fn]reads it may run.

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