Board

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.

(2): (n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, - used for building, etc.

(3): (n.) The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.

(4): (n.) The border or side of anything.

(5): (n.) A table to put food upon.

(6): (n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.

(7): (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; - usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.

(8): (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.

(9): (n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.

(10): (n.) The side of a ship.

(11): (n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.

(12): (n.) To enter, as a railway car.

(13): (n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

(14): (n.) To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.

(15): (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.

(16): (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.

(17): (v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.

King James Dictionary

Board n.

1. A piece of timber sawed thin and of considerable length and breadth, compared with the thickness, used for building and other purposes. 2. A table. The table of our rude ancestors was a piece of board, perhaps originally laid upon the knees. "Lauti cibum capiunt separata singulis sedes, et sua cuique mensa." 3. Entertainment food diet as, the price of board is two, five, or seven dollars a week. 4. A table at which a council or court is held hence a council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting as a board of directors. 5. The desk of a ship the interior part of a ship or boat used in the phrase, on board, aboard. In this phrase however the sense is primarily the side of the ship. To go aboard is to go over the side. 6. The side of a ship.

Now board to board, the rival vessels row.

To fall over board, that is, over the side the mast went by the board.

Board and board, side by side.

7. The line over which a ship runs between tack and tack. To make a good board, is to sail in a straight line, when close hauled.

To make short boards, is to tack frequently.

8. A table for artificers to sit or work on. 9. A table or frame for a game as a chess board, &c. 10. A body of men constituting a quorum in session a court, or council as a board of trustees a board of officers.

BOARD, To lay or spread with boards to cover with boards.

1. To enter a ship by force in combat, which answers to storming a city or fort on land. 2. To attack to make the first attempt upon a man. In Spenser, to accost. 3. To place at board, for a compensation, as a lodger. 4. To furnish with food, or food and lodging, for a compensation as, a man boards ten students.

BOARD, To receive food or diet as a lodger or without lodgings, for a compensation as,he boards at the moderate price of two dollars a week.

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Exodus 26:15 (c) This board may be used as a type of a saved person. It was once a tree in the woods and of no value as a dwelling place for GOD. The tree had to die. It was cut down, made into boards, dressed, planed, and fitted. Even yet, it was not useful to GOD nor could it be placed in His holy temple. It must have silver tenons on the bottom to rest on in the sand. Silver speaks of redemption. It must have a covering of pure gold all over to hide the wood. Then it was fit for the tabernacle. (  Ephesians 2:22) So it is with the sinner. He must be cut down. He must die in the person of his Substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ He must go with Christ through the sufferings of Calvary, his burial and resurrection, and then be clothed with the golden robe of righteousness, the beauty of his Saviour. He must rest on redemption ground and be joined to the other "boards." Then he helps, with them, to form "a habitation of God by His Spirit."

 Song of Solomon 8:9 (b) The board here represents a type of all believers standing together "fitly joined together,"  Ephesians 4:16, in order to make a Church which is GOD's dwelling place.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Σανίς (Strong'S #4548 — Noun Feminine — sanis — san-ece' )

denotes "a plank, or board,"  Acts 27:44 .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of the following words: לוּחִ Lu'Ach (a tablet, usually "table"), spoken of the enclosing materials of the altar,  Exodus 27:8;  Exodus 38:7; of sculptured Slabs,  1 Kings 7:36 ("ledge"); of writing Tablets ("table"),  Isaiah 30:8;  Jeremiah 17:1;  Habakkuk 2:2; of the valve of folding-doors,  Song of Solomon 8:9; of the Deck of a ship,  Ezekiel 27:5; צֵלָע , Tse'La, A "rib," hence a Beam (q.v.),  1 Kings 6:15-16; קֶרֶשׁ , Ke'Resh, a Plank, i.e. of the tabernacle,  Exodus 26:15-29;  Exodus 25:11;  Exodus 36:20-34;  Exodus 39:33;  Exodus 40:18;  Numbers 3:36;  Numbers 4:31; "bench," i.e. Deck,  Ezekiel 27:6; שַׂדֵרָה , Sederah', a Row, E.G. of stones,  1 Kings 6:9; of soldiers (" ranges"),  2 Kings 11:8;  2 Kings 11:15; Σανίς , a Plank of a vessel,  Acts 27:44.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

bōrd ( קרשׁ , ḳeresh , "a slab or plank," "deck of a ship," "bench," "board"): This word is found in  Exodus 26:16-21;  Exodus 36:21; its plural occurs in  Exodus 26:15 ,  Exodus 26:17-29;  Exodus 35:11;  Exodus 36:20-34;  Exodus 39:33;  Exodus 40:18;  Numbers 3:36;  Numbers 4:31 . This word also is used in translation of לוּח , lūaḥ ( Exodus 27:8;  Exodus 38:7;  Song of Solomon 8:9;  Ezekiel 27:5 the King James Version) = "a tablet" (of stone, wood or metal), "board," "plate," "table"; also of cēla‛ = "rib," hence, a "side," "timber," "plank" ( 1 Kings 6:15 f). In   1 Kings 6:9 , שדרה , sedhērāh = "a rank," "a row," hence, "a range" or "board" is used. In the New Testament we find the expression "on board" in  Acts 27:44 the King James Version, in translation of ἐπὶ σανίσιν , epı́ sanı́sin = "planks."