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Tablet Corpus Count

The triliteral root lām wāw ḥā (ل و ح) appears in the Quran six times:

In The Quran

(7:144-145) He said, "O Moses, I have chosen you over people with My message and My words; so take what I have given you and be of the thankful." We wrote for him on the tablets (Arab. الْأَلْوَاحِ, l-alwāḥi) from everything a lesson, and detailing all things. You shall uphold them firmly and order your people to take the best from it. I will show you the abode of the corrupt.

(7:150) When Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved, he said, "Miserable is what you have done after me; do you wish to hasten the action of your Lord?" He cast down the tablets (Arab. الْأَلْوَاحَ, l-alwāḥa), and took his brother by his head dragging him towards him. He said, "Son of my mother, the people overpowered me and nearly killed me, so do not make the enemies rejoice over me, and do not make me with the wicked people."

(7:154) When the anger subsided from Moses, he took the tablets (Arab. الْأَلْوَاحَ, l-alwāḥa); and in its inscription was a guidance and mercy for those who revere their Lord.

Manifest to all the people

(74:29-30) Manifest to (all) the people (Arab. لَوَّاحَةٌ لِلْبَشَرِ, lawwāḥatun lil'bashari). On it is nineteen.

similarly to two more expressions in the same surah:

(74:31) ...It is but a methodology to (all) the people (Arab. ذِكْرَىٰ لِلْبَشَرِ, dhik'rā lil'bashari).

(74:35-36) Indeed, it (is) surely one (of) the greatest. A warning to (all) the people (Arab. نَذِيرًا لِلْبَشَرِ, nadhīran lil'bashari).

The addressee of the manifesto-methodology-warning in all three ayahs is Humanity-Bashar, which is «Humanity» in the broadest sense of this word - from the pygmies of equatorial Africa, and hunter-gatherers of Amazonia, to the most progressive and civilized societies of the New and Old World.

The Great Architect of the Universe

(85:21-22) No, it is a famous architecture. Preserved on a (divine) hard drive (Arab. لَوْحٍ, lawḥin).

(85:15) Possessor of The Fame Universe.

Planks and pitch

(54:13) And We carried him on (ark) made of planks (Arab. أَلْوَاحٍ, alwāḥin) and pitch.

Torah

(Torah, Genesis:6-14) Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.