Plate
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) One of the thin parts of the bricket of an animal.
(2): ( n.) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
(3): ( n.) A very light steel racing horsehoe.
(4): ( n.) Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specif., in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake.
(5): ( n.) A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond-shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run; - called also home base, or home plate.
(6): ( n.) The fine nap (as of beaver, hare's wool, musquash, nutria, or English black wool) on a hat the body of which is of an inferior substance.
(7): ( n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.
(8): ( n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
(9): ( n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.
(10): ( n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
(11): ( n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
(12): ( n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.
(13): ( n.) A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.
(14): ( n.) A piece of money, usually silver money.
(15): ( n.) A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.
(16): ( n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
(17): ( n.) That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.
(18): ( v. t.) To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
(19): ( n.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
(20): ( n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
(21): ( v. t.) To calender; as, to plate paper.
(22): ( v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.
(23): ( v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
(24): ( v. t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
King James Dictionary [2]
Plate n. L. Latus, with the radical sense of laid, spread.
1. A piece of metal, flat or extended in breadth. 2. Armor of plate, composed of broad pieces, and thus distinguished from mail. 3. A piece of wrought silver, as a dish or other shallow vessel hence, vessels of silver wrought silver in general. Plate, by the laws of some states, is subject to a tax by the ounce. 4. A small shallow vessel, made of silver or other metal, or of earth glazed and baked, from which provisions are eaten at table. A wooden plate is called a trencher. 5. The prize given for the best horse in a race. 6. In architecture, the piece of timber which supports the ends of the rafters. See Platform.
PLATE, To cover or overlay with plate or with metal used particularly of silver as plated vessels.
1. To arm with plate or metal for defense as, to plate sin with gold.
Why plated in habiliments of war?
2. To adorn with place as a plated harness. 3. To beat into thin flat pieces or lamens.
Holman Bible Dictionary [3]
Exodus 28:36 Numbers 16:38
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
plat : A term seemingly not used in the Bible for a dish as it is so commonly used at present, but always for a tablet or sheet of metal. (1) ציץ , cı̄c ( Exodus 28:36; Exodus 39:30; Leviticus 8:9 ), a plate of gold on the front of the mitre of the high priest. The name seems to have been given because of the radiance of the object. (2) פּח , paḥ ( Exodus 39:3; Numbers 16:38 ), of plates or sheets of metal produced by hammering. (3) לוּח , lūaḥ , used for tablets or tables of stone ( Exodus 24:12 , etc.), but in 1 Kings 7:36 for the metal plates on the bases of the lavers in the temple. The word סרן , ṣeren , is rendered "plate" in 1 Kings 7:30 the King James Version, manifestly incorrectly, the Revised Version (British and American) "axle."
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
( לוּחִ , Mach, 1 Kings 7:36, a Board [or "table"], as elsewhere rendered; פִּח , pach, a thin La Mina, Exodus 39:3; Numbers 16:38; צַיוֹ , Tsits, a Burnished plate of metal, Exodus 28:36; Exodus 39:30; Leviticus 8:9; סֶרֶן , Seren, an Axle , 1 Kings 7:30).
