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Ark

תֵּבָהStrong’s H8392

tevah (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.”
Genesis 6:14 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.]

  1. A small close vessel, chest or coffer, such as that which was the repository of the tables of the covenant among the Jews.
  2. The large floating vessel, in which Noah and his family were preserved, during the deluge.
  3. A depository.“Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength” Psalms 132:8
  4. 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.