Tevah תֵּבָה

Tevah (Hebrew תֵּבָה, Strong's H8392) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “ark”. It occurs 28 times in 25 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Tevah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• 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.Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
• Genesis 6:15
  And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
• Genesis 6:16
  A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
• Genesis 6:18
  But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
• Genesis 6:19
  And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.
• Genesis 7:1
  And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
• Genesis 7:7
  And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
• Genesis 7:9
  There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
• Genesis 7:13
  In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
• Genesis 7:15
  And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
• Genesis 7:17
  And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
• Genesis 7:18
  And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
• Genesis 7:23
  And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
• Genesis 8:1
  And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
• Genesis 8:4
  And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
• Genesis 8:6
  And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
• Genesis 8:9
  But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
• Genesis 8:10
  And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
• Genesis 8:13
  And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
• Genesis 8:16
  Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.
• Genesis 8:19
  Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
• Genesis 9:10
  And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.
• Genesis 9:18
  And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

Exodus

• Exodus 2:3
  And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
• Exodus 2:5
  And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).