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plank

LOG. Used for building purposes (Mt 7:3-5; Lk 6:41-42).

A huge timber that supports the roof and floor of a large building. Heavy wooden beams, cut from the famed cedars of Lebanon, were used in the construction of the Temple in Solomon's time (1 Ki 6:36.

The KJV renders "beam," and the NIV "plank."