--- title: לוּחַ — tablet · The Tanakh dictionary description: לוּחַ (3871), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 43 times: tablet. BDB 1906: n.m. tablet, board plank, plate. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3871.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ל](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1500.md)‎ / לוּחַ‎ # לוּחַ «לוּחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tablet** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 43 times · **Key:** 3871 · **BDB:** לוּחַ ### Glosses tablets (23); the.tablets (11); the.tablet (3) ### Meaning (OSHB) tablet [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3871/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. tablet, board plank, plate [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3871/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. tablet, board or plank, plate (NH id., Aramaic לוּחָא, ܠܘܽܚܳܐ; Arabic لَوْحٌ (mod. pron. lûḥ, lôḥ, cf. e.g. SpiroArabic-Eng. Vocab. Buhl), Ethiopic ለውሕ, but Assyrian lêʾu (as if from לחה in DlHWB 366; see, however, lêjum (lêyum) JägerBAS i, 486);—ל׳ abs. Is 30:8; cstr. Pr 3:3 + 4 times; du. לֻחֹתָ֑יִם Ez 27:5; pl. לוּחֹת (לֻחוֹת), לֻחֹת) abs. Ex 32:16 + 17 times; cstr. Dt 4:13 + 16 times;— chiefly of stone tablets on which ten words were written Ex 24:12; 31:18b; 32:16(×2), 19 (all E), 34:1(×3), 4(×2), 28 (all J), Dt 4:13; 5:19; 9:9, 10, 11, 17; 10:1, 2(×2), 3(×2), 4, 5 1 K 8:9 2 Ch 5:10; ל׳ הָעֵדֻת Ex 31:18a; 32:15 cf. v 15, 34:29 (all P); ל׳ הַבְּרִית Dt 9:9, 11, 15; tablet for writing prophecy Is 30:8 (‖ סֵפֶר), Hb 2:2, and fig., לוּחַ לִבְּךָ Pr 3:3; 7:3 (for writing wise counsel), cf. Je 17:1 (inscribing sin of Judah); (vb. mostly כָּתַב Ex 31:18b; 32:15; Dt 9:10; כ׳ עַל Ex 34:1, 28; Dt 4:13; 5:19; 10:2, 4 Pr 3:3; 7:3; Is 30:8; חָרַשׁ עַל Je 17:1; כָּרַת sq. acc. Dt 9:9 cf. 1 K 8:9 = 2 Ch 5:10; חָרַת עַל Ex 32:16; בֵּאֵר עַל Hb 2:2). wooden boards, composing altar of tabern. Ex 27:8; 38:7; planks composing ship (fig. of Tyre) Ez 27:5; cf. נָצוּר עָלֶיהָ לוּחַ אָ֑רֶז Ct 8:9, of door. (metal) plates on bases of lavers in Solomon’s temple 1 K 7:36. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 32 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «לוּחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3871/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Proverbs 7:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.3/) קָשְׁרֵ֥ם עַל־אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑יךָ כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם עַל־ל֥וּחַ לִבֶּֽךָ׃ *Word for word:* bind them on fingers your write them on the.tablet your.heart your *JPS 1917:* Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart. [Exodus 27:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.8/) נְב֥וּב לֻחֹ֖ת תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֹת֑וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר הֶרְאָ֥ה אֹתְךָ֛ בָּהָ֖ר כֵּ֥ן יַעֲשֽׂוּ׃ס *Word for word:* hollow of.boards you.will.make it just as he.showed you on the mountain so they.will.do *JPS 1917:* Hollow with planks shalt thou make it; as it hath been shown thee in the mount, so shall they make it. - ← previous: [לוּז](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3870.md) - next →: [לוּחִית](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3872.md) - ↑ back to [ל](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1500.md)