Ark
תֵּבָהStrong’s H8392tevah (te-vah)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tevah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ark”, “ark of” and “basket of”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
Meaning
- Arkvessel which Noah built · basket vessel in which Moses was placed
How it's translated
- the ark 22
- in the ark 2
- an ark of 1
- for the ark 1
- a basket of 1
- the basket 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 23
- Exodus 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 6:15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Genesis 6:16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
- Genesis 6:18But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
- Genesis 6:19And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
- Genesis 7:1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
- Genesis 7:7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Hebrew dictionary
תֵּבָה tevah · ark
1) ark 1a) vessel which Noah built 1b) basket vessel in which Moses was placed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ark” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
'ARK, noun
[Latin arca.]
- A small close vessel, chest or coffer, such as that which was the repository of the tables of the covenant among the Jews.
- The large floating vessel, in which Noah and his family were preserved, during the deluge.
- A depository.“Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength” Psalms 132:8
- A large boat used on American rivers, to transport produce to market.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.