Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
tablet
Usage: 1) board, slab, tablet, plank 1a) tablets (of stone) 1b) boards (of wood) 1c) plate (of metal)
Luach means “table” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3871 — parakalypto (“hide”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3871 לוַּח לוַּח (luwach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. luwach (loo'-akh) (or luach {loo'-akh}) n-m. 1. probably meaning to glisten 2. a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal It has 33 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include stone and boards. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
luwach (loo'-akh) (or luach {loo'-akh}) n-m. 1. probably meaning to glisten 2. a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal [from a primitive root] KJV: board, plate, table.
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tablet
Usage: 1) board, slab, tablet, plank 1a) tablets (of stone) 1b) boards (of wood) 1c) plate (of metal)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render luwach, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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33 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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 written; that thou mayest teach them.
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
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 God.
First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3871.
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 written; that thou mayest teach them.
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
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 God.
And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
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 his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
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, the ten commandments.
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 not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
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.
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 he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
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 days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
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 came out of the land of Egypt.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
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:
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3871, grouped by book.
Luach (Strong's H3871) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "table". luwach (loo'-akh) (or luach {loo'-akh}) n-m. 1. probably meaning to glisten 2. a tablet (as polished), of stone, wood or metal
This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's H3871 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3871 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as stone and boards. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.