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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:8 - Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18 - When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed 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 the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:16 - The tablets were the work of God; 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 Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 - The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:4 - So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And 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 - When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:7 - They inserted the poles into the rings so they would be on the sides of the altar for carrying it. They made it hollow, out of boards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13 - He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 - These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them 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 on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:10 - The LORD gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the LORD proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:11 - At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me 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 from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And 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 - So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:2 - I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on 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 wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:5 - Then I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD commanded me, and they are there now.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:36 - He engraved cherubim, lions and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and on the panels, in every available space, 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 that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out 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 that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:3 - Let love and faithfulness never 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 fingers; 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 towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8 - Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlasting witness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:1 - “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:5 - They made all your timbers of juniper from Senir[fn]; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:2 - Then the LORD replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald[fn] may run with it.
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