The masculine noun shulchan denotes a table, covering a range from the leather mat spread on the ground in early Semitic practice to the elaborate furnishings of palace and temple. It appears 71 times in contexts spanning the domestic (Judg 1:7, where vanquished kings gather crumbs under a table), the royal (David's table, 2 Sam 9:7-13; Solomon's table, 1 Kgs 10:5), the sacral (the table of showbread, Exod 25:23-30), and the metaphorical (Ps 23:5, 'you prepare a table before me'). By metonymy it can represent the provision or fellowship associated with dining. Spanish mesa, French table, and German Tisch all converge on a single equivalent, confirming that the physical-object sense and the metonymic-provision sense remain lexically unified.