Topical Bible: Boards

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In biblical times, boards were an essential component in construction, particularly in the building of the Tabernacle, as described in the Old Testament. The use of boards is primarily detailed in the book of Exodus, where God provides Moses with specific instructions for the construction of the Tabernacle, a portable earthly dwelling place for the Divine presence.

Construction of the Tabernacle:

The Tabernacle, also known as the Tent of Meeting, was constructed using acacia wood boards. These boards formed the framework of the Tabernacle, providing structure and support for the sacred space. In Exodus 26:15-30, the Berean Standard Bible describes the specifications for these boards:

“You are to construct upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. Two tenons must be connected to each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. Construct twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle, with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.”

The boards were overlaid with gold, and each board was set in silver sockets, signifying the preciousness and sanctity of the Tabernacle. The use of acacia wood, known for its durability and resistance to decay, symbolizes the enduring nature of God's covenant with His people.

Symbolism and Significance:

The boards of the Tabernacle hold deep symbolic meaning within the biblical narrative. They represent the strength and stability of God's presence among His people. The meticulous instructions for their construction underscore the importance of obedience and reverence in worship. The gold overlay signifies purity and divinity, while the silver bases may symbolize redemption, as silver is often associated with atonement in Scripture.

Other Uses of Boards:

While the primary biblical reference to boards pertains to the Tabernacle, boards were also used in other construction contexts in ancient Israel. They were likely employed in the building of homes, storage facilities, and other structures, although specific details are less frequently mentioned in the biblical text.

Cultural and Historical Context:

In the ancient Near East, wood was a valuable resource, and its use in construction was both practical and symbolic. The choice of acacia wood for the Tabernacle boards reflects the availability and suitability of this material in the region. The craftsmanship involved in creating the boards and the entire Tabernacle structure highlights the skill and dedication of the artisans, who were divinely inspired and equipped for their task (Exodus 31:1-6).

Conclusion:

The boards of the Tabernacle serve as a testament to the intricate design and divine purpose of this sacred structure. They remind believers of the importance of following God's instructions with precision and the significance of creating a holy space for worship. Through the boards, the enduring presence of God among His people is both physically and spiritually manifested.

Strong's Hebrew

7175b. qeresh -- board, boards
... 7175a, 7175b. qeresh. 7176 . board, boards. Transliteration: qeresh Short
Definition: boards. Word Origin from an unused word Definition ...
/hebrew/7175b.htm - 5k

7351. rahit -- perhaps rafters, boards
... 7350, 7351. rahit. 7352 . perhaps rafters, boards. Transliteration: rahit
Phonetic Spelling: (rekh-eet') Short Definition: rafters. ...
/hebrew/7351.htm - 6k

6763. tsela -- rib, side
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition rib, side NASB Word Usage boards (3),
chambers (1), hillside* (1), leaves (1), one...another (1), rib (1), ribs (1 ...
/hebrew/6763.htm - 6k

Library

If She be a Wall, we Will Build Upon it Bulwarks of Silver; if She ...
... CHAPTER VIII. 9. If she be a wall, we will build upon it bulwarks of silver;
if she be a door we will frame it with boards of cedar. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/9 if she be a.htm

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
... Post 8vo. Cloth boards 1 6. Argument from Prophecy (The). By the =Rev. ... Post 8vo.
Cloth boards 1 6. Scepticism and Faith. By the =Rev. Brownlow Maitland=. ...
/.../the kingdom of heaven what is it/society for promoting christian knowledge.htm

Publications
... Post 8vo. Cloth boards, 10s. 6d. ... By the Rev. CANON TRISTRAM, Author of "Bible Places,"
"The Land of Israel," &c.4to. Cloth, bevelled boards, gilt edges, 6s. ...
/.../publications.htm

Works by the Same Author.
... ARE WE TO MODIFY FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINE? Small post 8vo, cloth boards, 1s. ... Small
post 8vo, cloth boards, 2s. FOUNDATIONS OF SACRED STUDY. ...
/.../addresses on the revised version of holy scripture/works by the same author.htm

I have Been Asked to Tell You About the Back of the North Wind. .. ...
... For one side of the room was built only of boards, and the boards were so old
that you might run a penknife through into the north wind. ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 1 i have been.htm

Salvation Army Publications
... A description of the Officers of The Army and their Work.167 pages. Cloth, Bevelled
Boards, 1s.6d.; Cloth, 1s.; Paper, 6d. ... Cloth Boards, 1s.; Paper, 6d. ...
/.../howard/standards of life and service/salvation army publications.htm

Footnotes:
... not aware of the extent to which wattle-work can be used and has been used, have
said that virgea must in this connection mean "made of boards," not of wattle. ...
/.../footnotes .htm

Building a Great Temple
... He covered the walls of the temple on the inside with boards of cedar from the floor
of the temple to the rafters: and he covered the floor of the temple with ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/building a great temple.htm

The Church and Her Mission, or the Three Constitutional Synods ...
... by the Lot; and that during an inter-synodal period the supreme management of Church
affairs should be in the hands of three directing boards, which should all ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter i the church and.htm

Missionary Programs and Rural Community Service
... missionary agencies in the home fields have learned from the experience in the foreign
fields, and now the programs of home missionary boards are characterized ...
/.../vogt/church cooperation in community life/chapter x missionary programs and.htm

Thesaurus

Boards (50 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Boards (50 Occurrences). Acts 27:44 And the rest,
some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. ...
/b/boards.htm - 21k

Ship-boards (1 Occurrence)
Ship-boards. Ship, Ship-boards. Shiphi . Multi-Version Concordance
Ship-boards (1 Occurrence). Ezekiel 27:5 They have ...
/s/ship-boards.htm - 6k

Frames (47 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Frames (47 Occurrences). Exodus 26:15 "You shall make
the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up. (See RSV NIV). ...
/f/frames.htm - 17k

Bars (50 Occurrences)
... (WEB NIV). Exodus 26:26 "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards
of the one side of the tabernacle, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
/b/bars.htm - 22k

Cedar-wood (22 Occurrences)
... had need of; (BBE). 1 Kings 6:9 So he put up the house and made it complete,
roofing it with boards of cedar-wood. (BBE). 1 Kings 6 ...
/c/cedar-wood.htm - 12k

Crossbars (8 Occurrences)
... Exodus 26:29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold
for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold. (See NIV). ...
/c/crossbars.htm - 8k

Westward (35 Occurrences)
... seed. (YLT). Exodus 26:22 For the far part of the tabernacle westward you
shall make six boards. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV). ...
/w/westward.htm - 19k

Rear (46 Occurrences)
... tabernacle. (DBY NIV). Exodus 26:22 And for the rear of the tabernacle
westward thou shalt make six boards. (DBY NAS RSV). Exodus ...
/r/rear.htm - 21k

Bases (80 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Exodus 26:19 With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases
under every board to take its tongues. (BBE DBY RSV NIV). ...
/b/bases.htm - 29k

Sockets (44 Occurrences)
... Exodus 26:19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two
sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another ...
/s/sockets.htm - 20k

Resources

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Boards (50 Occurrences)

Acts 27:44
And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Exodus 26:15
"You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:17
There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:18
You shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:19
You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:20
For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:22
For the far part of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:23
You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:25
There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:26
"You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:27
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 far part westward.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:28
The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 26:29
You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 27:8
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Exodus 35:11
the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:20
He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:21
The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.
(BBE DBY)

Exodus 36:22
Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:23
He made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:24
He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:25
For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:27
For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:28
He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:30
There were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:31
He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:32
and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:33
He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 36:34
He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 38:7
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.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Exodus 39:33
They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 40:18
Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Numbers 3:36
The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Numbers 4:31
This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

1 Kings 6:6
The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.
(BBE)

1 Kings 6:9
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS)

1 Kings 6:10
And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.
(BBE)

1 Kings 6:15
He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 6:16
He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls of the ceiling : he built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 6:36
And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.
(BBE)

1 Kings 7:12
The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.
(BBE)

2 Kings 6:2
So let us go to Jordan, and let everyone get to work cutting boards, and we will make a living-place for ourselves there. And he said to them, Go, then.
(BBE)

Nehemiah 2:8
And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. And the king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.
(BBE)

Nehemiah 3:3
The sons of Hassenaah were the builders of the fish doorway; they put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods.
(BBE)

Nehemiah 3:6
Joiada, the son of Paseah, and Meshullam, the son of Besodeiah, made good the old doorway; they put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods.
(BBE)

Song of Songs 1:17
Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.
(BBE)

Song of Songs 8:9
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.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Ezekiel 27:5
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS)

Ezekiel 27:9
The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 27:27
Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 27:28
At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking.
(BBE)

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