Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kiβotós/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kivotós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kivotós/

Noun

κιβωτός • ‎(kibōtós) f ‎(genitive κιβωτοῦ); second declension

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

Inflection

References

• 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
• “G2787”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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.

Greek

Noun

κιβωτός • ‎(kivotós) f ‎(plural κιβωτοί)

1. preserver

Declension

Derived terms

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

External links

• κιβωτός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el