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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

plank: Thick beams or pieces of wood, for which several Hebrew words are used. The Revised Version (British and American) changes "planks" (of fir) into "boards" in 1Ki 6:15, and in a few instances substitutes "planks" where the King James Version has "boards" (Ex 27:8; 38:7, the altar; Eze 27:5). So in the New Testament in Ac 27:44, for sanis.

See SHIPS AND BOATS, II, 2, (3).