In the Hebrew Bible, the Hebrew word used for Noah’s Ark is tebah.
The noun tebah is the term used in the Hebrew text for the vessel Noah builds in Genesis. It is commonly transliterated as “tebah” or “tevah,” depending on the system used to represent Hebrew sounds in Latin letters.
The same Hebrew word is also used for the basket in which the infant Moses is placed in the Book of Exodus. This shared vocabulary has led scholars and readers to note a literary connection between the two rescue stories: both involve a vulnerable figure preserved in a vessel amid dangerous waters.
Tebah should not be confused with terms such as Torah, which refers to instruction or law, or mishkan, which refers to the Tabernacle. Those words belong to different biblical contexts and do not name Noah’s vessel.