Word study

Board

3 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: boards, boarded, board. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

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How often each original word is translated “board” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • לוּחַ lûachtablet, board or plank, platetranslated this way 2 times of its 42 uses · Strong’s H3871Noun  ·  Translated: tablets 33, tablet 3, boards 2

    Exodus 27:8 Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

    Exodus 38:7 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.

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  • צֵלָע tsêlârib, sidetranslated this way 2 times of its 36 uses · Strong’s H6763Noun  ·  Translated: side 11, side rooms 9, sides 4, boards 2

    1 Kings 6:15 He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.

    1 Kings 6:16 He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

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  • קָהָל qâhâlassembly, convocation, congregationtranslated this way 1 time of its 119 uses · Strong’s H6951Noun  ·  Translated: assembly 94, company 7, horde 3, mob 3

    Ezekiel 27:27 Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • ἐπιβαίνω epibaínōI step on, mount, boardtranslated this way 2 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s G1910Verb  ·  Translated: boarded 2, riding 1, arrived 1, go 1

    Acts 21:2 Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded it and set sail.

    Acts 27:2 We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.

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  • συνεισέρχομαι syneisérchomaiI enter together withtranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s G4897Verb  ·  Translated: boarded 1, went 1

    John 6:22 The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not boarded it with His disciples, but they had gone away alone.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.