Genesis 6:14
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
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Ark
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Revelation 11:19
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
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3025 verses
Judges
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אָרוֹן
ʼârôwn · aw-rone'
195 times translated as this KJV form202 total Strong's occurrences
a box
Strong's KJV usage: ark, chest, coffin.
Strong's first: Exodus 25:10Strong's last: Jeremiah 3:16
Open full H727 profile →תֵּבָה
têbâh · tay-baw'
28 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
a box
Strong's KJV usage: ark.
Strong's first: Genesis 6:14Strong's last: Exodus 2:5
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kibōtós · kib-o-tos'
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a box, i.e. the sacred ark and that of Noah
Strong's KJV usage: :--ark.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 24:38Strong's last: Revelation 11:19
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H727
And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
H727
And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
H727
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
H727
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
H727
And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
H727
That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
H727
And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
H727
And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
H727
And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
H727
And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
H727
Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
H727
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
H727
And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
H727
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
H727
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
H727
And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
H727
And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
H727
And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
H727
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
H727
For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
H727
For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
H727
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
H727
And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
H727
And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
H727
And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul.
English meaning and historical usage.
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ark
'ARK, noun [Latin arca.]
1. A small close vessel, chest or coffer, such as that which was the repository of the tables of the covenant among the Jews. This was about three feet nine inches in length. The lid was the propitiatory, or mercy seat, over which were the cherubs. The vessel in which Moses was set afloat upon the Nile was an ark of bulrushes.
2. The large floating vessel, in which Noah and his family were preserved, during the deluge.
3. A depository.
Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength. Psalms 132:8.
4. A large boat used on American rivers, to transport produce to market.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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