Bible Dictionary
BOARD
A slab, plank, board, tablet, or timber. Boards formed part of the tabernacle structure, while the word can also describe ship planks, wooden tablets, and structural sides.
Definition
A board is a slab, plank, tablet, plate, timber, or structural side. The term may refer to wooden construction, a tablet of stone or metal, or the planks of a ship.
Biblical Usage
Boards formed part of the tabernacle structure. Scripture also uses the word for tablets, structural timbers, and the planks on which people traveled aboard a ship.
Historical Background
The underlying terms can denote a slab or plank, a tablet, a side or rib, a row or range, and the planks of a vessel.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>bord (qeresh, "a slab or plank," "deck of a ship," "bench," "board"): This word is found in Ex 26:16-21; 36:21 ff; its plural occurs in Ex 26:15,17-29; 35:11; 36:20-34; 39:33; 40:18; Nu 3:36; 4:31. This word also is used in translation of luach (Ex 27:8; 38:7; So 8:9; Eze 27:5 the King James Version) = "a tablet" (of stone, wood or metal), "board," "plate," "table"; also of tsla` = "rib," hence, a "side," "timber," "plank" (1Ki 6:15 f). In 1Ki 6:9, sedherah = "a rank," "a row," hence, "a range" or "board" is used. In the New Testament we find the expression "on board" in Ac 27:44 the King James Version, in translation of epi sanisin = "planks."</p><p>Frank E. Hirsch</p>