Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8392
תֵּבָה
tebahtay-baw'
ark
28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: têbâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8392is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8392
a box
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
tebah is rendered "ark". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Twenty-six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:14Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
Genesis 6:14תֵּבַ֣ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the ark22
- in the ark2
- a basket of1
- an ark of1
- for the ark1
- the basket1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תֵּבֵל | tebel | world | Uses36 |
All 28, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- הַתֵּבָ֔ה7
- הַתֵּבָ֑ה5
- הַתֵּבָ֖ה5
- הַתֵּבָֽה׃4
- הַתֵּבָה֙2
- בַּתֵּבָ֑ה1
- בַּתֵּבָֽה׃1
- לַתֵּבָ֗ה1
- תֵּבַ֣ת1
- תֵּ֣בַת1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular23HTd/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular3HRd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
Genesis
twenty-six uses
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
- תֵּבַ֣תtevatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: an ark of
- הַתֵּבָ֑הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
- הַתֵּבָ֔הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
- לַתֵּבָ֗הlatevahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: for the ark
- הַתֵּבָ֖הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
- הַתֵּבָ֔הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.
- הַתֵּבָ֖הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
- הַתֵּבָ֑הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
- הַתֵּבָ֑הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
- הַתֵּבָ֖הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
- הַתֵּבָֽה׃hatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
- הַתֵּבָ֑הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
- הַתֵּבָ֔הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
- הַתֵּבָ֖הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
- בַּתֵּבָֽה׃batevahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the ark
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
- בַּתֵּבָ֑הbatevahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the ark
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
- הַתֵּבָה֙hatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
- הַתֵּבָ֖הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
- הַתֵּבָ֔הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
- הַתֵּבָֽה׃hatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
- הַתֵּבָֽה׃hatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
- הַתֵּבָ֔הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.
- הַתֵּבָ֑הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
- הַתֵּבָֽה׃hatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.
- הַתֵּבָ֔הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
- הַתֵּבָ֔הhatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the ark
Exodus
two uses
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- תֵּ֣בַתtevatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a basket of
Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
- הַתֵּבָה֙hatevahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the basket
Where it leads
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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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.