κιβωτός
ark
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 4 times (67%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 1 time (17%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2787 appears — 6 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 9:4 κιβωτὸν n acc sg fem having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
- Hebrews 11:7 κιβωτὸν n acc sg fem By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
1 Peter 1 verse
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
κιβωτος — transliterated kibōtós — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “ark.” It first appears in Matthew 24:38. With 6 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Hebrews (33% of all occurrences). Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 6-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2787 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 33%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 17%
- Johannine 1 verse · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 17%
- Revelation 1 verse · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ark 6×
- American Standard Version: Ark 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ark 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ark 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2787 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2787 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2787 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2787 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a wooden chest or box
- in the NT the ark of the covenant, in the temple at Jerusalem
- of Noah's vessel built in the form of an ark
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Of uncertain derivative; a box that is the sacred ark and that of Noah : - ark.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2787 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κιβωτόν kibōtón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 24:38 | 2 |
| κιβωτὸν kibōtòn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 9:4 | 2 |
| κιβωτοῦ kibōtoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | 1 Peter 3:20 | 1 |
| κιβωτὸς kibōtòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 11:19 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κιβωτος appears 216 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 189 verses in 15 books.
- 216
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 189
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:14 κιβωτός
- Exodus 25:10 κιβωτός
- Leviticus 16:2 κιβωτός
- Numbers 3:31 κιβωτός
- Deuteronomy 10:1 κιβωτός
- Joshua 3:3 κιβωτός
- Judges 20:27 κιβωτός
- 1 Samuel 3:3 κιβωτός
- 2 Samuel 6:2 κιβωτός
- 1 Kings 2:26 κιβωτός
- 2 Kings 12:10 κιβωτός
- 1 Chronicles 6:16 κιβωτός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2787) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 189. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:14 κιβωτός Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- Genesis 6:15 κιβωτός This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Genesis 6:16 κιβωτός You shall make a roof in the ark, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
- Genesis 6:18 κιβωτός But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 6:19 κιβωτός Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
- Genesis 7:1 κιβωτός Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Genesis 7:7 κιβωτός Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
- Genesis 7:9 κιβωτός went by pairs to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
- Genesis 7:13 κιβωτός In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark;
- Genesis 7:15 κιβωτός They went to Noah into the ark, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
- Genesis 7:16 κιβωτός Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.
- Genesis 7:17 κιβωτός The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
- Genesis 7:18 κιβωτός The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 7:23 κιβωτός Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
- Genesis 8:1 κιβωτός God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Genesis 8:4 κιβωτός The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.
- Genesis 8:6 κιβωτός It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
- Genesis 8:9 κιβωτός but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
- Genesis 8:10 κιβωτός He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
- Genesis 8:13 κιβωτός It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.
- Genesis 8:16 κιβωτός "Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 8:19 κιβωτός Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.
- Genesis 9:10 κιβωτός and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth.
- Genesis 9:18 κιβωτός The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Exodus 25:10 κιβωτός "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
- Exodus 25:14 κιβωτός You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
- Exodus 25:15 κιβωτός The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.
- Exodus 25:16 κιβωτός You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.
- Exodus 25:21 κιβωτός You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.
- Exodus 25:22 κιβωτός There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
- Exodus 26:33 κιβωτός You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
- Exodus 26:34 κιβωτός You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
- Exodus 30:6 κιβωτός You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
- Exodus 30:26 κιβωτός You shall use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony,
- Exodus 31:7 κιβωτός the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
- Exodus 35:12 κιβωτός the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;
- Exodus 38:1 κιβωτός He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.
- Exodus 38:5 κιβωτός He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.
- Exodus 38:11 κιβωτός For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 39:14 κιβωτός The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
- Exodus 40:3 κιβωτός You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
- Exodus 40:5 κιβωτός You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tent.
- Exodus 40:20 κιβωτός He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
- Exodus 40:21 κιβωτός He brought the ark into the tent, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 16:2 κιβωτός and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
- Numbers 3:31 κιβωτός Their charge shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.
- Numbers 4:5 κιβωτός When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,
- Numbers 7:89 κιβωτός When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him.
- Numbers 10:33 κιβωτός They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them.
- Numbers 10:34 κιβωτός The cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2787) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
