לוּחַ
lu.ach (H3871)
tablet
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word לוּחַ (lu.ach) is defined as a "tablet." It appears 43 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in ancient Hebrew culture. The word likely refers to a flat, inscribed surface, possibly made of stone, wood, or clay, used for writing or recording information. The frequency of its occurrence suggests that tablets played a crucial role in various aspects of life, such as commerce, law, and record-keeping. The word's presence in different contexts implies that tablets were used for a range of purposes, from mundane tasks like inventory management to more formal functions like recording transactions and agreements. The significance of לוּחַ lies in its representation of the importance of written records in ancient Hebrew society. The widespread use of tablets highlights the value placed on documentation and the need for accurate record-keeping in various aspects of life.
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Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”
You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.
It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.
So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
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.”
So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.
He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me.
I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
On the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.
There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.
They have made all your planks of cypress trees from Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.
Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.