κιβωτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kiː.bɔː.tós/ → /ci.βoˈtos/ → /ci.voˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kiː.bɔː.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ki.boˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ci.βoˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ci.voˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ci.voˈtos/

Noun

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

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ κῑβωτός; τῆς κῑβωτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῑβωτός hē kībōtós	τὼ κῑβωτώ tṑ kībōtṓ	αἱ κῑβωτοί hai kībōtoí
Genitive	τῆς κῑβωτοῦ tês kībōtoû	τοῖν κῑβωτοῖν toîn kībōtoîn	τῶν κῑβωτῶν tôn kībōtôn
Dative	τῇ κῑβωτῷ têi kībōtôi	τοῖν κῑβωτοῖν toîn kībōtoîn	ταῖς κῑβωτοῖς taîs kībōtoîs
Accusative	τὴν κῑβωτόν tḕn kībōtón	τὼ κῑβωτώ tṑ kībōtṓ	τᾱ̀ς κῑβωτούς tā̀s kībōtoús
Vocative	κῑβωτέ kībōté	κῑβωτώ kībōtṓ	κῑβωτοί kībōtoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

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

Further reading

• “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.
  • 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

Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	κιβωτός (kivotós)	κιβωτοί (kivotoí)
genitive	κιβωτού (kivotoú)	κιβωτών (kivotón)
accusative	κιβωτό (kivotó)	κιβωτούς (kivotoús)
vocative	κιβωτέ (kivoté) κιβωτό (kivotó)	κιβωτοί (kivotoí)

Derived terms

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

Related terms

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

Further reading

• κιβωτός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el