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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me to the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:8 - You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so they must make it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18 - He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15 - Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides - they were written on the front and on the back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:16

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 - The LORD said to Moses, "Cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:4 - So Moses cut out two tablets of stone like the first; early in the morning he went up to Mount Sinai, just as the LORD had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 - Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand - when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:7 - He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar hollow, out of boards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13 - And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 - The LORD said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. Then he inscribed the words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:10 - The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - Now at the end of the forty days and nights the LORD presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:15 - So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17 - I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - At that same time the LORD said to me, "Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:2 - I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark."

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - The LORD then wrote on the tablets the same words, the ten commandments, which he had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he gave them to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:5 - Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made - they are still there, just as the LORD commanded me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:36 - He engraved ornamental cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of the supports and frames wherever there was room, with wreaths all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. It was there that the LORD made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:10 - There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. (It was there that the LORD made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:3 - Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:3 - Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 8:9

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 boards of cedar. The Beloved:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8 - Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:1 - The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron chisel on their stone-hard hearts. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the horns of their altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:5 - They crafted all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:2 - The LORD responded: "Write down this message! Record it legibly on tablets, so the one who announces it may read it easily.
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