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Raft, float

Human-made Things in the Bible

The raft was a floating surface made by binding logs or planks together. A raft could also be made of inflated animal skins, as in the illustration below. It could be used for transporting people or goods.

Pictures

A man fishes from a raft made of inflated animal skins
A man fishes from a raft made of inflated animal skinsAusten Henry Layard, Nineveh and Babylon: a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851, Public domain, via archive.org

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

דֹּבְרוֹת dovroth · 1 verse

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σχεδία schedia · 3 verses

Also in Boat, ship

Basket, small boat2 versesArk, ship31 versesMast3 versesSail3 versesAnchor4 versesOar3 versesSteering oar, rudder3 versesKeel1 verseFigurehead1 verseDeck3 verses

Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema