luach · tablet

What it means

luach (לוּחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tablet”.

A flat piece of stone, wood or metal to write on; also a board or plank.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A flat slab, like the stone ones of the covenant.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• tablets ×34
• tablet ×4
• planks ×3
• board ×1
• plates ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×17
• Deuteronomy×16
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Proverbs×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Exodus 24:12

  YHWH said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and be there, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the instruction and the commandment that I have written to teach them.”

• Exodus 27:8

  Hollow, with planks, you shall make it; as it was shown you on the mountain, so they shall make it.

• Exodus 31:18

  And he gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of Elohim.

• Exodus 32:15

  And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets written on both their sides; on one side and on the other they were written.

• Exodus 32:16

  And the tablets were the work of Elohim, and the writing was the writing of Elohim, engraved on the tablets.

• Exodus 32:19

  And it happened, as soon as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, that Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.

• Exodus 34:1

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

• Exodus 34:4

  So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones; and Moses rose early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as YHWH had commanded him, and he took in his hand two tablets of stone.

• Exodus 34:28

  And he was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; bread he did not eat, and water he did not drink. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.

• Exodus 34:29

  And it happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in the hand of Moses as he came down from the mountain, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had spoken with him.

• Exodus 38:7

  And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them; hollow, of planks, he made it.

• Deuteronomy 4:13

  He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to carry out, the ten words, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.

• Deuteronomy 5:22

  These words YHWH spoke to all your assembly on the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick cloud, with a loud voice, and he did not add more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

• Deuteronomy 9:9

  When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that YHWH made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; bread I did not eat, and water I did not drink.

• Deuteronomy 9:10

  YHWH gave me the two tablets of stone, written with the finger of Elohim; and on them was written according to all the words that YHWH had spoken with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

• Deuteronomy 9:11

  At the end of forty days and forty nights YHWH gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

• Deuteronomy 9:15

  So I turned and came down from the mountain, while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

• Deuteronomy 9:17

  So I seized the two tablets and threw them from my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

• Deuteronomy 10:1

  At that time YHWH said to me, “Carve for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make for yourself an ark of wood.

• Deuteronomy 10:2

  And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”

• Deuteronomy 10:3

  So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved two tablets of stone like the first ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

• Deuteronomy 10:4

  And he wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten words that YHWH had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and YHWH gave them to me.

• Deuteronomy 10:5

  Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made; and they are there, as YHWH commanded me.

• 1 Kings 7:36

  And he engraved on the plates of its handles and on its panels cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, and wreaths all around.

• 1 Kings 8:9

  There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where YHWH made a covenant with the sons of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

• 2 Chronicles 5:10

  There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb, where YHWH made a covenant with the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt.

• Proverbs 3:3

  Let not loyal love and faithfulness abandon you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart;

• Proverbs 7:3

  Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

• Song of Songs 8:9

  If she is a wall, we will build on her battlements of silver; and if she is a door, we will enclose her with a board of cedar.

• Isaiah 30:8

  Now go, write it on a tablet before them, and in a book inscribe it, that it may be for the day to come, forever, for all eternity.

• Jeremiah 17:1

  The sin of Judah is written with a chisel of iron, with a point of diamond; it is engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars,

• Ezekiel 27:5

  Of cypresses from Senir they built for you all the planks; a cedar from Lebanon they took to make a mast for you.

• Habakkuk 2:2

  And YHWH answered me and said: “Write the vision, and engrave it clearly on the tablets, so that the one who reads it may run.

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