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
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
- 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
- Noah was a good man in a violent world whom God told to build a great boat, the ark.
- The ark carried Noah's family and pairs of every kind of animal through the flood.
- In the story, rain fell for forty days and the waters covered the earth; everything outside the ark was lost.
- David danced with joy before God when the Ark of the Covenant was brought to Jerusalem.
- there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Trees and pragmatics
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