[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ark/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [A](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/a/) / ark # ark noun (an ark, arks) «ark» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#m1) 2. (Bible) The Ark of the Covenant was a gold-covered wooden box that held the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#m2) 3. (Judaism) The ark (Holy Ark) is the cupboard in a synagogue where the Torah scrolls are kept. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#m3) 4. In some old southern stories, an ark is a large wooden box or chest for keeping things in. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#m4) ### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x1) - The animals went into the ark two by two. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x2) - The ark floated for many days on the flood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x3) - My little brother has a wooden ark with pairs of animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x4) - The Ark of the Covenant held the Ten Commandments. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x5) - The Torah scrolls are kept in the ark at the synagogue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x6) - Dad's jokes are so old they came out of the ark! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x7) ### 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 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. ### Examples - the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the ark-cover; (Torah EXO.39.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ark/#x1) - And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. (Torah EXO.25.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ark/#x2) - the ark, and the staves thereof, the ark-cover, and the veil of the screen; (Torah EXO.35.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ark/#x3) - So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. (Prophets 1SA.5.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ark/#x4) - And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark. (Writings 1CH.15.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ark/#x5) - Arise, O LORD, unto Thy resting-place; Thou, and the ark of Thy strength. (Writings PSA.132.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ark/#x6) ### 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. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «ark» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«ark» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ark.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «ark» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/ark/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«ark» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/ark.html) on Mova free.