κιβωτός

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

(ḏbꜣt, “sarcophagus, coffin”) and

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

κῑβωτός • (kībōtós) f (genitive κῑβωτοῦ); second declension

1. wooden box, chest, coffer
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1000
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1056
   • Inscriptiones Graecae 150B.22

• κιβώτιον (kibṓtion)
• κιβωτίδιον (kibōtídion)
• κιβωτάριον (kibōtárion)

• “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 (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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • box idem, page 92.
  • chest idem, page 129.
• 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

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

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

κιβωτός • (kivotós) f (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)

• Κιβωτός του Νώε f (Kivotós tou Nóe, “Noah's Ark”)
• Κιβωτός της Διαθήκης f (Kivotós tis Diathíkis, “Ark of the Covenant”)

• κιβώτιο n (kivótio, “box, container”)
• εγκιβωτίζω (egkivotízo)

• κιβωτός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el