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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3871

לוּחַ

luachloo'-akh

tablet

43 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: lûwach

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3871is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 25
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3871

probably meaning to glisten; a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal

The King James renders it: board, plate, table.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

luach is rendered "tablet". It stands 43 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 24:12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.

The first use

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

Exodus 24:12לֻחֹ֣ת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seventeen of the word's forty-three uses are in Exodus.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • tablets of19
  • the tablets13
  • tablet of3
  • boards2
  • a board of1
  • a tablet1
  • and the tablets1
  • planks1
  • tablets1
  • the plates of1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 43, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

25 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הַלֻּחֹ֔ת5
  • לֻחֹ֣ת5
  • לֻחֹ֥ת5
  • ל֥וּחַ3
  • הַלֻּחֹ֥ת2
  • לוּחֹ֣ת2
  • לֻח֥וֹת2
  • לֻחֹ֖ת2
  • הַלֻּח֔וֹת1
  • הַלֻּח֑וֹת1
  • הַלֻּחֹ֗ת1
  • הַלֻּחֹ֖ת1

and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)19HNcfpc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural13HTd/Ncfpa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
  • noun · feminine plural3HNcfpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Td/Ncfpa
  • noun · feminine dual1HNcfda
  • noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HTd/Ncfpc

Exodus

seventeen uses
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

    Exodus 24:12

    • לֻחֹ֣תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

    Exodus 27:8

    • לֻחֹ֖תluchotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: boards
  • When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

    Exodus 31:18

    • לֻחֹ֣תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
    • לֻחֹ֣תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

    Exodus 32:15

    • לֻחֹ֥תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
    • לֻחֹ֗תluchotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: tablets
  • The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

    Exodus 32:16

    • וְהַ֨לֻּחֹ֔תvehaluchotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the tablets
    • הַלֻּחֹֽת׃haluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets
  • As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

    Exodus 32:19

    • הַלֻּחֹ֔תhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

    Exodus 34:1

    • לֻחֹ֥תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
    • הַלֻּחֹ֔תhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets
    • הַלֻּחֹ֥תhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets
  • So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.

    Exodus 34:4

    • לֻחֹ֨תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
    • לֻחֹ֥תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

    Exodus 34:28

    • הַלֻּחֹ֗תhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets
  • And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.

    Exodus 34:29

    • לֻחֹ֤תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.

    Exodus 38:7

    • לֻחֹ֖תluchotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: boards

Deuteronomy

sixteen uses
  • He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

    Deuteronomy 4:13

    • לֻח֥וֹתluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

    Deuteronomy 5:22

    • לֻחֹ֣תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

    Deuteronomy 9:9

    • לוּחֹ֤תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
    • לוּחֹ֣תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.

    Deuteronomy 9:10

    • לוּחֹ֣תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

    Deuteronomy 9:11

    • לֻחֹ֥תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
    • לֻח֥וֹתluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

    Deuteronomy 9:15

    • לֻחֹ֣תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

    Deuteronomy 9:17

    • הַלֻּחֹ֔תhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets
  • At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

    Deuteronomy 10:1

    • לֻוחֹ֤תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
  • And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”

    Deuteronomy 10:2

    • הַלֻּחֹ֔תhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets
    • הַלֻּחֹ֥תhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets
  • So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

    Deuteronomy 10:3

    • לֻחֹ֥תluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of
    • הַלֻּחֹ֖תhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets
  • And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,

    Deuteronomy 10:4

    • הַלֻּחֹ֜תhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets
  • and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.

    Deuteronomy 10:5

    • הַלֻּחֹ֔תhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets

1 Kings

two uses
  • He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and panels, wherever each had space, with wreaths all around.

    1 Kings 7:36

    • הַלֻּחֹת֙haluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the plates of
  • There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.

    1 Kings 8:9

    • לֻח֣וֹתluchotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablets of

2 Chronicles

one use
  • There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.

    2 Chronicles 5:10

    • הַלֻּח֔וֹתhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets

Proverbs

two uses
  • Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

    Proverbs 3:3

    • ל֥וּחַluachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablet of
  • Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

    Proverbs 7:3

    • ל֥וּחַluachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablet of

Song of Solomon

one use
  • If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

    Song of Solomon 8:9

    • ל֥וּחַluachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a board of

Isaiah

one use
  • Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.

    Isaiah 30:8

    • ל֛וּחַluachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a tablet

Jeremiah

one use
  • “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

    Jeremiah 17:1

    • ל֣וּחַluachnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tablet of

Ezekiel

one use
  • They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

    Ezekiel 27:5

    • לֻֽחֹתָ֑יִםluchotayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: planks

Habakkuk

one use
  • Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.

    Habakkuk 2:2

    • הַלֻּח֑וֹתhaluchotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the tablets

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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