Greek noun (feminine) · G2787
κιβωτός
kibotoskib-o-tos'
ark: Noah
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kibōtós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2787is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2787
a box, i.e. the sacred ark and that of Noah
The King James renders it: ark.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kibotos is rendered "ark: Noah". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 24:38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Matthew 24:38κιβωτόν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Hebrews.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- ark5
- an ark1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- κιβωτόν2
- κιβωτὸν2
- κιβωτὸς1
- κιβωτοῦ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular4N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Matthew
one use
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
- κιβωτόνkibotonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: ark
Luke
one use
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
- κιβωτόνkibotonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: ark
Hebrews
two uses
containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
- κιβωτὸνkibotonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: ark
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
- κιβωτὸνkibotonnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: an ark
1 Peter
one use
who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
- κιβωτοῦkibotounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: ark
Revelation
one use
Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
- κιβωτὸςkibotosnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: ark
Where it leads
On this page
Studies1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.