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What Does “Table” Mean in the Bible?
In the King James Bible, “Table” means “tablet” in modern English. It is an archaic word from the 1611 KJV that has dropped out of everyday use.
What Was Lost
The covenant weight of the word. The tables of stone were not dining furniture but engraved covenant tablets -- permanent, authoritative, finger-of-God inscribed. Paul's contrast between stone tables and heart tables was about writing surfaces: the law written on dead stone versus written on living flesh. The furniture meaning obscures this.
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