BOARD, three Heb. terms are so tr. in the Eng. The most common Heb. קֶ֫רֶשׁ, H7983, has an obscure etymology, but it is undoubtedly cognate to Ugaritic q r š and Akkad. qarāšu. The meanings are quite different, however. In the descriptions of the building of the Tabernacle it means a “board” as in Exodus 26:15ff. Less common is Heb. לוּחַ, H4283, “a wooden table,” a palette of wood. Although this term occurs over thirty-five times in the OT it is usually mistranslated. KJV reads “board” in only four contexts. The last term is Heb. צֵלָע֒, H7521, used for “side,” “rib” and by extension for artificial sides as architectural features. Used in sense of “board” or “girder” in 1 Kings and Ezekiel. Another term as yet unknown is Heb. שְׂדֵרָה, H8444, and appears in 1 Kings 6:9; 2 Kings 11:8, 15; 1 Chronicles 23:14. The NT has only one term so tr. in the various VSS, Gr. σανίς, G4909, which means exclusively “a board,” “plank” and is used to tr. Heb. terms above in LXX. Only in the NT in Acts 27:44 where it describes the flotsam and jetsam of a shipwreck, is it used in the same sense in classical Gr. lit.