teva · ark

What it means

teva (תֵּבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ark”.

A large box or chest. It is Noah's vessel; the same word is used only again for the basket where the baby Moses was put (Exodus 2:3).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Noah's great floating box, or baby Moses' basket.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Genesis×26
• Exodus×2

• Genesis 6:14

  Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; with compartments you shall make the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.

• Genesis 6:15

  And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

• Genesis 6:16

  An opening you shall make for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from above; and the door of the ark you shall put in its side; with lower, second, and third decks you shall make it.

• Genesis 6:18

  But I will establish my covenant with you; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and the wives of your sons with you.

• Genesis 6:19

  And of every living thing, of all flesh, two of every kind you shall bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

• Genesis 7:1

  And YHWH said to Noah, “Come, you and all your household, into the ark, for you I have seen to be righteous before me in this generation.

• Genesis 7:7

  And Noah went into the ark, and his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the flood.

• Genesis 7:9

  two and two they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as Elohim had commanded Noah.

• Genesis 7:13

  On that very day Noah went into the ark, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them,

• Genesis 7:15

  And they came to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the spirit of life.

• Genesis 7:17

  And the flood was forty days on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose above the earth.

• Genesis 7:18

  And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark moved on the surface of the waters.

• Genesis 7:23

  And he wiped out all that existed that was on the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky; and they were wiped out from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

• Genesis 8:1

  And Elohim remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and Elohim made a wind pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

• Genesis 8:4

  And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

• Genesis 8:6

  And it happened at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

• Genesis 8:9

  But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of all the earth. And he reached out his hand and took her and brought her to himself into the ark.

• Genesis 8:10

  And he waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

• Genesis 8:13

  And it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and look, the face of the ground had dried.

• Genesis 8:16

  “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and the wives of your sons with you.

• Genesis 8:19

  Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, by their families went out of the ark.

• Genesis 9:10

  and with every living being that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that came out of the ark, to every animal of the earth.

• Genesis 9:18

  And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

• Exodus 2:3

  When she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of papyrus, coated it with bitumen and with pitch, put the child in it, and set it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

• Exodus 2:5

  The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, while her young women were walking beside the Nile. She saw the ark among the reeds and sent her maid, and she took it.

And 3 more times.