לוּחַ luach

Hebrew word for “tablet” · Strong’s H3871 · used 43 times in 33 verses

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Meaning

1) board, slab, tablet, plank; 1a) tablets (of stone); 1b) boards (of wood); 1c) plate (of metal)

How it is translated

Glosses given for luach in context, with how often each is used:

• tablets 34
• tablet 4
• boards 2
• plates 1
• board 1
• planks 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 9 (5), Deuteronomy 10 (5), Exodus 34 (4), Exodus 32 (3), Exodus 24 (1), Exodus 27 (1), Exodus 31 (1), Exodus 38 (1), Deuteronomy 4 (1), Deuteronomy 5 (1)

Forms

• לחת 15
• הלחת 12
• לוח 5
• לוחת 4
• לחות 3
• הלחות 2
• והלחת 1
• לחתים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with luach more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כָּתַב katav “to write” 15
• הַר har “mountain” 15
• אֶבֶן even “stone” 12
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 15
• פָּסַל pasal “to hew” 4
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 9
• רִאשׁוֹן rishon “first” 6
• אֲרוֹן aron “ark” 6
• בְּרִית berit “covenant” 5
• שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 4
• דָּבָר davar “word” 7
• אֶצְבַּע etsba “finger” 3

Key verses

The verses using luach that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 24:12 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have…
• Exodus 31:18 — And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of…
• Exodus 32:19 — And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of…
• Exodus 34:28 — And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant,…
• Exodus 34:29 — And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist…
• Deuteronomy 4:13 — And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
• Deuteronomy 5:22 — These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and…
• Deuteronomy 9:9 — When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty…
• 1 Kings 8:9 — There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they…
• Proverbs 3:3 — Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
• Isaiah 30:8 — Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
• Habakkuk 2:2 — And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.