noun · feminine
kibōtas
Strong’sG2787
an ark
stem kibōt-6 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
κιβωτός, -οῦ, ἡ,
[in LXX: Ge 6-9 (תֵּבָה), elsewhere, very freq., as Ex 25:9 (10), for אָרוֹן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2787 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkib-o-tos'
a box, i.e. the sacred ark and that of Noah
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesark.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
box, chest, coffer, Refs 5th c.BC+; Noah's ark, LXX; the ark of LXX+2nd c.AD+; πέπτωκεν εἰς κ. has been deposited in the archives, Refs 3rd c.BC+, etc.; opposed to κίστη (which see). (Perh. a variant in Refs 8th c.BC+ cites κίβος as the radical form.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kibōtas1×κιβωτὸς | kibōtais |
| object accusative | kibōtan4×κιβωτόν | kibōtain |
| direct address vocative | kibōtar | kibōtair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kibōtau1×κιβωτοῦ | kibōtaiu |
| to, for dative | kibōta | kibōtai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kibōta is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
kibōtas“ark”subjectnominative singular1×
Revelation 11:19… en to ourano, kai horita tas kibōtas tau diathēkau autou en to nao …… in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His …
kibōtan“ark”objectaccusative singular4×
Matthew 24:38… hau hēmerau eiserchata Nōe eis tan kibōtan,… to the day Noah entered the ark.
Luke 17:27… hau hēmerau eiserchata Nōe eis tan kibōtan, kai erchata tos kataklusmos kai apolata …… to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed …
Hebrews 9:4chrusouem echarōntas thumiatēriem kai tan kibōtan tau diathēkau perikaluptorēntan pantothen chrusie, en …… altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark …
Hebrews 11:7… peri teiu mēdepō bleporōnteiu eulabirantos kataskeuazata kibōtan eis sōtērēan tou oikou autou, dia …… seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith …
kibōtau“ark”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Peter 3:20… theou makrothumias en hēmerai Nōe kataskeuazorōntau kibōtau eis han oligois, houtem atō oktō …… the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark …