κιβωτός

Ancient Greek

From an original *τῖβωτός (*tîbōtós), 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).

κῑβωτός • (kībōtós) f (genitive κῑβωτοῦ); second declension

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 tēî kībōtōî	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.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κιβωτός (kibōtós, “wooden box, chest, coffer”) with biblical senses from Koine Greek.^[1]

κιβωτός • (kivotós) f (plural κιβωτοί)

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