Word Summary
plax: anything flat and broad, a flat stone
Original Word: πλάξTransliteration: plax
Phonetic Spelling: (plax)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: anything flat and broad, a flat stone
Meaning: anything flat and broad, a flat stone
Strong's Concordance
table, tablet
From plasso; a moulding-board, i.e. Flat surface ("plate", or tablet, literally or figuratively) -- table.
see GREEK plasso
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4109: πλάξπλάξ,
πλακος,
ἡ ((akin to
πλάτος, etc.;
Fick 4:161)),
a flat thing, broad tablet, plane, level surface (as of the sea) (cf. our
plate) (
Pindar, Tragg., others; the
Sept. for
לוּחַ):
αἱ πλάκες τῆς διαθήκης (see
διαθήκη, 2, p. 136b),
Hebrews 9:4;
οὐκ ἐν πλαξί λιθίναις (
tables of stone, such as those on which the law of Moses was written),
ἀλλ' ἐν πλαξί καρδίας σαρκίναις,
2 Corinthians 3:3.