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Lexicon :: Strong's H3871 - lûaḥ

Aa
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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and take your place there: and I will give you the stones on which I have put in writing the law and the orders, so that you may give the people knowledge of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:8 - The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18 - And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15 - Then Moses came down the mountain with the two stones of the law in his hand; the stones had writing on their two sides, on the front and on the back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:16 - The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 - And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:4 - So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 - Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:7 - He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13 - And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 - These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:9 - When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:10 - And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:15 - So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:17 - And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:2 - And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:5 - And turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:36 - In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - There was nothing in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:10 - Nothing was in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:3 - Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:3 - Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:9 - If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8 - Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:1 - The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:5 - They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:2 - And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.
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