ark
part of speech
noun (an ark, arks)
meaning for a pupil
1) (Bible) Noah's ark was the huge wooden boat Noah built to save his family and two of every kind of animal from the great flood. tree →
2) (Bible) The Ark of the Covenant was a gold-covered wooden box that held the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. tree →
3) (Judaism) The ark (Holy Ark) is the cupboard in a synagogue where the Torah scrolls are kept. tree →
4) In some old southern stories, an ark is a large wooden box or chest for keeping things in. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it mostly means the Ark of the Covenant, the gold-covered chest in the Tabernacle that held the tablets of the Law. Its lid was the ark-cover, and it was carried on poles called staves. In the Prophets and Writings the Ark is carried to war, captured by the Philistines, guarded by Levite door-keepers, and called the ark of God's strength. Interpretation: Tradition sees the Ark as the holiest object, where God's presence met Moses between the two cherubim above the cover. The psalm that asks God to rise to His resting-place with the Ark is read as being about bringing it into the Temple. Today the cupboard holding the Torah scrolls in a synagogue is called the Ark in memory of it. In the primary lessons: Children's toy arks have animals walking in two by two. The story ends with a rainbow, God's promise never to flood the earth again. In jokes, "out of the ark" means very old-fashioned. Phrases: Noah's ark, the Ark of the Covenant, two by two into the ark, went out with the ark.
examples
- the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the ark-cover; (Torah EXO.39.35, JPS 1917) tree →
- And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. (Torah EXO.25.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- the ark, and the staves thereof, the ark-cover, and the veil of the screen; (Torah EXO.35.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. (Prophets 1SA.5.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark. (Writings 1CH.15.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- Arise, O LORD, unto Thy resting-place; Thou, and the ark of Thy strength. (Writings PSA.132.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- Noah built the ark out of wood. tree →
- The animals went into the ark two by two. tree →
- The ark floated for many days on the flood. tree →
- My little brother has a wooden ark with pairs of animals. tree →
- The Ark of the Covenant held the Ten Commandments. tree →
- The Torah scrolls are kept in the ark at the synagogue. tree →
- Dad's jokes are so old they came out of the ark! tree →
note
Countable: an ark (use "an"). Homophone: arc (part of a circle in maths, or a curved line like a rainbow's arc). The rainbow at the end of Noah's story makes an arc.
In the corpora
- there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
- And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
- And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
- And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
- And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Trees and pragmatics
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