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Genesis 6:14

`Make to-yourself a chest of gopher-woods,245 nests246 you are making את-the Chest,247 and you have covered אֶת-her248 from the house249 and from the outwall in the Kopher.250

Footnote:

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The Ark⇒Wooden Chest

The Hebrew אֶת- as a mark of accusative (#853) instead of “near” (#854) agrees with the verb to make. Strong’s #8392, tebah, a box, chest. BDB notes “probably Egyptian loan-word from T-b-t, chest, coffin”. It needs to be known that Hebrew words for “ship” (#6716, #5600, #591) are not used here nor are any Greek words for “ship” used in Jesus’ reference to it,

“They ate, they drank, they married, they gave in marriage, until which hot-one came in Rest into the wooden chest [kibótos #G2787] and came the deluge and destroyed the whole.” Luke 17:27 literal