תֵּבָהtêbâh
a box
Pronunciation: tay-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8392
Meanings
ark, properly chest, box, vessel in which infant Moses was laid among reeds, vessel which saved Noah and his family, with animals, during flood (Genesis 7:1; Genesis 6:14; Exodus 2:3; Exodus 2:5; Genesis 7:7)
Where it appears
Appears 28 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 6:14 “Build a large boat from cypress wood and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior.
- Genesis 6:15 Make the boat 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
- Genesis 6:16 Leave an 18-inch opening 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.
- Genesis 6:18 But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
- Genesis 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.
- Genesis 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.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).