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Lexicon :: Strong's G2787 - kibōtos

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κιβωτός
Transliteration
kibōtos (Key)
Pronunciation
kib-o-tos'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
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Strong’s Definitions

κιβωτός kibōtós, kib-o-tos'; of uncertain derivation; a box, i.e. the sacred ark and that of Noah:—ark.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G2787 in the following manner: ark (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G2787 in the following manner: ark (6x).

  1. a wooden chest or box

  2. in the NT the ark of the covenant, in the temple at Jerusalem

  3. of Noah's vessel built in the form of an ark

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κιβωτός kibōtós, kib-o-tos'; of uncertain derivation; a box, i.e. the sacred ark and that of Noah:—ark.
STRONGS G2787:
κιβωτός, κιβωτοῦ, ἡ (κιβος (cf. Suidas 2094 e.)), a wooden chest, box ((Hecataeus, 368 (Müller's Frag. i., p. 30), Simonides), Aristophanes, Lysias, Athen., Aelian, others): in the N. T., the ark of the covenant, in the temple at Jerusalem, Hebrews 9:4 (Philo, Josephus; the Sept. very often for אָרון); in the heavenly temple, Revelation 11:19; of Noah's vessel, built in the form of an ark, Matthew 24:38; Luke 17:27; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20 (4 Macc. 15:31; the Sept. for תֵּבָה).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
24:38
Luke
17:27
Hebrews
9:4; 11:7
1 Peter
3:20
Revelation
11:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2787 matches the Greek κιβωτός (kibōtos),
which occurs 215 times in 188 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 6:14–Num 14:44)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14 - “Build a large boat[fn] from cypress wood[fn] and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:15 - Make the boat 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:16 - Leave an 18-inch opening[fn] below the roof all the way around the boat. Put the door on the side, and build three decks inside the boat—lower, middle, and upper.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18 - But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:19 - Bring a pair of every kind of animal—a male and a female—into the boat with you to keep them alive during the flood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:1 - When everything was ready, the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 - He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:9 - They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13 - That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:15 - Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:16 - A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD closed the door behind them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:18 - As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1 - But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - exactly five months from the time the flood began,[fn] the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6 - After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 - After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began,[fn] the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16 - “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10 - and with all the animals that were on the boat with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals—every living creature on earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:18 - The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:10 - “Have the people make an Ark of acacia wood—a sacred chest 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:14 - Insert the poles into the rings at the sides of the Ark to carry it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:15 - These carrying poles must stay inside the rings; never remove them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:16 - When the Ark is finished, place inside it the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant,[fn] which I will give to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:21 - Place inside the Ark the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant, which I will give to you. Then put the atonement cover on top of the Ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22 - I will meet with you there and talk to you from above the atonement cover between the gold cherubim that hover over the Ark of the Covenant.[fn] From there I will give you my commands for the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:33 - Hang the inner curtain from clasps, and put the Ark of the Covenant[fn] in the room behind it. This curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:34 - “Then put the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—on top of the Ark of the Covenant inside the Most Holy Place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:6 - Place the incense altar just outside the inner curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant,[fn] in front of the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—that covers the tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant.[fn] I will meet with you there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:26 - Use this sacred oil to anoint the Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:7 - the Tabernacle;[fn]
the Ark of the Covenant;[fn]
the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement;
all the furnishings of the Tabernacle;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:12 - the Ark and its carrying poles;
the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement;
the inner curtain to shield the Ark;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:1 - Next Bezalel made the Ark of acacia wood—a sacred chest 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:6 - Then he made the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—from pure gold. It was 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:15 - He made these poles from acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:3 - Place the Ark of the Covenant[fn] inside, and install the inner curtain to enclose the Ark within the Most Holy Place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5 - “Place the gold incense altar in front of the Ark of the Covenant. Then hang the curtain at the entrance of the Tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:20 - He took the stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant and placed them[fn] inside the Ark. Then he attached the carrying poles to the Ark, and he set the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—on top of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:21 - Then he brought the Ark of the Covenant into the Tabernacle and hung the inner curtain to shield it from view, just as the LORD had commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - The LORD said to Moses, “Warn your brother, Aaron, not to enter the Most Holy Place behind the inner curtain whenever he chooses; if he does, he will die. For the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—is there, and I myself am present in the cloud above the atonement cover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31 - These four clans were responsible for the care of the Ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the various articles used in the sanctuary, the inner curtain, and all the equipment related to their use.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:5 - When the camp moves, Aaron and his sons must enter the Tabernacle first to take down the inner curtain and cover the Ark of the Covenant[fn] with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:89

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89 - Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant.[fn] The LORD spoke to him from there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 - They marched for three days after leaving the mountain of the LORD, with the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant moving ahead of them to show them where to stop and rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35 - And whenever the Ark set out, Moses would shout, “Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered! Let them flee before you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44 - But the people defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country, even though neither Moses nor the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant left the camp.

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