אַרְגָּז
argaz · chest, box
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H712 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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argaz (אַרְגָּז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “chest, box”.
Hung at the side of a cart. The word appears only in 1 Samuel 6.
How to say it
ar·gaz
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A lidded box for keeping things.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 6:8
And take the ark of YHWH and put it on the cart, and the objects of gold that you are restoring to him as a guilt offering you shall put in the chest at its side; and send it off, and let it go.
- 1 Samuel 6:11
And they put the ark of YHWH on the cart, and the chest and the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
- 1 Samuel 6:15
And the Levites brought down the ark of YHWH and the chest that was with it, in which were the objects of gold, and put them on the great stone. And the men of Beth-shemesh offered up burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices that day to YHWH.