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Lexicon :: Strong's G2787 - kibōtos

Aa
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 214 times in 187 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 6:14–Num 14:44)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14 - So make yourself an ark of cypress[fn] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:15 - This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:16 - Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[fn] high all around.[fn] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:19 - You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:1 - The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 - And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:9 - male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13 - On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:15 - Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:16 - The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:18 - The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:1 - But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:6 - After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 - He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16 - “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10 - and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:18

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:10 - “Have them make an ark[fn] of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:15 - The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:16 - Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:21 - Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22 - There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:33 - Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:34 - Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:6 - Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law—before the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the covenant law—where I will meet with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:26 - Then use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:7 - the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant law with the atonement cover on it, and all the other furnishings of the tent—

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:12 - the ark with its poles and the atonement cover and the curtain that shields it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:1 - Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:6 - He made the atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:15 - The poles for carrying the table were made of acacia wood and were overlaid with gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:3 - Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:5 - Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the covenant law and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:20 - He took the tablets of the covenant law and placed them in the ark, attached the poles to the ark and put the atonement cover over it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:21 - Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the covenant law, as the LORD commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - The LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die. For I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:31 - They were responsible for the care of the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used in ministering, the curtain, and everything related to their use.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:5 - When the camp is to move, Aaron and his sons are to go in and take down the shielding curtain and put it over the ark of the covenant law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89 - When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law. In this way the LORD spoke to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:33 - So they set out from the mountain of the LORD and traveled for three days. The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them during those three days to find them a place to rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35 - Whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Rise up, LORD! May your enemies be scattered; may your foes flee before you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44 - Nevertheless, in their presumption they went up toward the highest point in the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the LORD’s covenant moved from the camp.

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