Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From an original *τīβωτός (*tībōtós), from Aramaic תֵּיבוֹתָא (tēḇōṯā), from a merger of Egyptian

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(ḏbꜣt, sarcophagus, coffin) and

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(dbt, chest, box), as also synonymous Arabic تَابُوت (tābūt) and Hebrew תֵּבָה (tēḇā́).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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κῑβωτός (kībōtósf (genitive κῑβωτοῦ); second declension

  1. wooden box, chest, coffer

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Further reading

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  • κιβωτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κιβωτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • κιβωτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Hoffmann, Georg (1878) “Bibliographische Anzeigen: I Gregorii Bar Ebhraya in evangelium Iohannis commentarius. E Thesauro mysteriorum desumptum edidit R. Schwartz. Gottingae, in aedibus Dietrichianis. MDCCCLXXVIII. 28 pp. 8. II Gregorii Abulfaragii Bar Ebhraya in actus apostolorum et epistulas catholicas adnotationes Syriace e recognitione Martini Klamroth. Diss. inaug. Gottingae, in aedibus Dietrichianis. MDCCCLXXVIII. 30 pp. 8”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[1] (in German), volume 32, page 748 footnote 1
  • G2787 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κιβωτός (kibōtós, wooden box, chest, coffer) with biblical senses from Koine Greek.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ci.voˈtos/
  • Hyphenation: κι‧βω‧τός

Noun

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κιβωτός (kivotósf (plural κιβωτοί)

  1. (biblical) ark, Ark (Ark of the Covenant)
  2. (biblical) ark, Ark (Noah's Ark)
  3. ark (something affording protection, especially to a spiritual tradition)

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ κιβωτός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

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