Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
board
Usage: 1) board, boards, plank 1a) board 1b) boards
Qeresh means “bench” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7175 קֶרֶשׁ (qeresh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. qeresh (keh'-resh) n-m. 1. a slab or plank 2. (by implication) a deck of a ship It has 34 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include boards, board, and benches. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
qeresh (keh'-resh) n-m. 1. a slab or plank 2. (by implication) a deck of a ship [from an unused root meaning to split off] KJV: bench, board.
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board
Usage: 1) board, boards, plank 1a) board 1b) boards
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render qeresh, 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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34 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
First 34 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7175.
And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.
And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,
And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7175, grouped by book.
Qeresh (Strong's H7175) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "bench". qeresh (keh'-resh) n-m. 1. a slab or plank 2. (by implication) a deck of a ship
This page currently indexes 34 linked usages for Strong's H7175 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7175 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as boards, board, and benches. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.