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

### Noun

κῑβωτός • (kībōtós) f (genitive κῑβωτοῦ); second declension
* wooden box, chest, coffer
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1000
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1056
** Inscriptiones Graecae 150B.22

#### 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 (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

## Greek
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ci.voˈtos/
* Hyphenation: κι‧βω‧τός

### Noun

κιβωτός • (kivotós) f (plural κιβωτοί)
* (biblical) ark, Ark (Ark of the Covenant)
* (biblical) ark, Ark (Noah's Ark)
* ark (something affording protection, especially to a spiritual tradition)

#### Declension

| | singular | plural |
| nominative | κιβωτός • | κιβωτοί • |
| genitive | κιβωτού • | κιβωτών • |
| accusative | κιβωτό • | κιβωτούς • |
| vocative | κιβωτέ •, κιβωτό • | κιβωτοί • |

#### 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)

### References

* ↑ κιβωτός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

### Further reading

* κιβωτός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$