Ark of the Covenant

English

Proper noun

Ark of the Covenant

(Judaism, Christianity) The sacred container, a gold-plated wooden chest, of the two tablets of law (the Ten Commandments) given to Moses by the Hebrew God.

Translations

the sacred container, a gold-plated wooden chest

Arabic: تَابُوت اَلْعَهْد‎ m (tābūt al-ʿahd)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 約櫃, 约柜 (joek³ gwai⁶)

Mandarin: 約櫃 (zh), 约柜 (zh) (Yuēguì)
Danish: Pagtens ark c
Dutch: verbondsark m or f, Ark van het Verbond
Faroese: sáttmálaørkin f
Finnish: liitonarkki (fi)
French: Arche d'Alliance f
German: Bundeslade (de) f
Greek: Κιβωτός της Διαθήκης f (Kivotós tis Diathíkis)
Hebrew: ארון הברית‎ (aron habrit)
Hungarian: frigyláda (hu)
Ido: archo di kontrato (io)

Irish: Áirc an Chonartha f
Italian: Arca dell'Alleanza f
Latin: arca foederis f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: paktens ark m

Nynorsk: paktarka f
Polish: Arka Przymierza (pl) f
Portuguese: Arca da Aliança f
Pukapukan: āluna
Rarotongan: 'āruna
Russian: ковче́г заве́та m (kovčég zavéta)
Spanish: arca de la Alianza f, arca del pacto f
Swedish: förbundsark c
Tagalog: Kaban ng Tipan

Further reading

Ark of the Covenant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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