Bible Dictionary: Coffer

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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Coffer

(argaz), a movable box hanging from the side of a cart. (1 Samuel 6:8,11,15) The word is found nowhere else.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The receptacle or small box placed beside the ark by the Philistines, in which they deposited the golden mice and the emerods as their trespass-offering (1 Samuel 6:8, 11, 15).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.

2. (n.) Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.

3. (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

4. (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

5. (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.

6. (v. t.) To put into a coffer.

7. (v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.

8. (v. t.) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

COFFER

kof'-er ('argaz): A small box such as that in which the Philistines placed their golden mice and other offerings in returning the Ark (1 Samuel 6:8, 11, 15).

Strong's Hebrew

712. argaz -- a box, chest
... coffer. Perhaps from ragaz (in the sense of being suspended), a box (as a pannier) --
coffer. see HEBREW ragaz. 711, 712. argaz. 713 . Strong's Numbers.
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1595. genez -- treasury, perhaps chests
... chest, treasury. From an unused root meaning to store; treasure; by implication,
a coffer -- chest, treasury. 1594, 1595. genez. 1596 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

The Ark among the Flags
... Miriam was probably the anxious sister who watched what became of the little coffer. ...
How much of the world's history that tiny coffer among the reeds held! ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the ark among the flags.htm

Psalm LIII.
... that He may be made rich, on God doth not call: for upon that He calleth which to
himself he willeth to come....But now thou wouldest have coffer full, and ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm liii.htm

A Letter from Origen to Gregory.
... from the Egyptians the vessels in the holy of holies were made,"the ark with its
lid, and the Cherubim, and the mercy-seat, and the golden coffer, where was ...
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Thou Shalt not Steal.
... For, as we have just said, to steal is to signify not only to empty our neighbor's
coffer and pockets, but to be grasping in the market, in all stores, booths ...
//christianbookshelf.org/luther/the large catechism/thou shalt not steal.htm

What was Heard in the Basilica of Peace
... high above the heavy mass of architecture, resting upon slim aerial little columns,
a buoyant aediculus shines like a coral tabernacle or a coffer of yellow ...
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Of the Sibyl.
... we ourselves, when in that city, ascertained from our cicerone, who showed us the
places in which she used to prophesy, that there was a certain coffer made of ...
/.../justin/justins hortatory address to the greeks/chapter xxxvii of the sibyl.htm

My God
... As the fountain in the garden,. As the candle in the dark,. As the treasure in
the coffer,. As the manna in the ark,. So, Lord, art Thou to me. ...
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Good or Bad Spirits?
... man with them. They began digging at eight, and after they had dug six
feet, saw the top of a coffer, or chest. But presently it ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/good or bad spirits.htm

Whether the Person Proceeding is Co-Eternal with his Principle, as ...
... a species. The eleventh is the realization of an idea [ideatio], as an external
coffer arises from the one in the mind. The twelfth ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the person proceeding is.htm

Psalm LXVII.
... If being good thou shalt have lost them, there is by thee the Comforter that hath
taken them away: the coffer is emptied of gold; the heart is full of faith ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxvii.htm

Thesaurus

Coffer (3 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To put into a coffer. ... 8. (vt) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to
furnish with a coffer or coffers. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. COFFER. ...
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Box (13 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 6:8 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels
of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by its ...
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Objects (30 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 6:8 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels
of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by its ...
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Figures (11 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 6:8 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels
of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by its ...
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Containing (12 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 6:11 and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer with
the mice of gold and the images of their tumors. (See NIV). ...
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Chest (15 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary (Hebrews 'aron, generally rendered "ark"), the coffer
into which the contributions for the repair of the temple were put (2 Kings 12:9 ...
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Jewels (54 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 6:8 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels
of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by its ...
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Articles (78 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 6:8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the
jewels of gold, which ye return Him for a guilt-offering, in a coffer by the ...
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Ark (212 Occurrences)
... The sacred ark is designated by a different Hebrew word, 'aron', which is the common
name for a chest or coffer used for any purpose (Genesis 50:26; 2 Kings 12 ...
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Cart (12 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 6:8 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels
of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by its ...
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Bible Concordance

Coffer (3 Occurrences)

1 Samuel 6:8 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by its side; and send it away, that it may go.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Samuel 6:11 and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Samuel 6:15 The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Subtopics

Coffer

Coffer: A Chest

Related Terms

Box (13 Occurrences)

Objects (30 Occurrences)

Figures (11 Occurrences)

Containing (12 Occurrences)

Chest (15 Occurrences)

Jewels (54 Occurrences)

Articles (78 Occurrences)

Ark (212 Occurrences)