That Word "Ark"

       We come upon the Hebrew word that English translates as "ark" a couple times in the Bible.  First is what Noah builds for his family and for the multitudinous animals to be saved two by two, a vessel and protector for all of them.

       And again we meet it as the transporting, sort of, and protecting basket of bullrushes (papyrus) for the baby Moses.

       Later, although a different Hebrew word, "ark" is borrowed for "Ark of the Covenant," which carries protectively the Ten Commandments through the desert in a chest.

       And later yet, the "Ark" in synagogues holds and keeps:  the Torah Scrolls!

       Ironically, the Oxford Living Dictionary online says the meaning "a ship or boat" for "ark" is "archaic," which only shows we can't have archaic and eat it too.