Box
אַרְגַּזStrong’s H0712argaz (ar-gaz)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Argaz is the Hebrew word usually translated “box”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“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 trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.”
Meaning
- Box, chest, coffer
How it's translated
- the box 2
- in the box 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 3
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 6:11And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
- 1 Samuel 6:15And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
אַרְגַּז argaz · box
box, chest, coffer
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “box” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOX, noun
[Lat. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box; Gr. a box and the tree.]
- The quantity that a box contains; as a box of quicksilver; a box or rings.
- A certain seat in a play-house, or in any public room.
- The case which contains the mariner's compass.
- A money chest.
All definitions and other forms of “box”
- A tree or shrub, constituting the genus buxus, used for bordering flower-beds.
- A blow on the head with the hand, or on the ear with the open hand.
- A cylindrical hollow iron used in wheels, in which the axle-tree runs.
BOX, verb intransitive
To fight with the fist; to combat with the hand or fist.
BOX, verb transitive
To inclose in a box; also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block.
- To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head.
- To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order.
- To make a hole or cut in a tree, to procure the sap; as, to box a maple.
- To sail round.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.