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Coffer

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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COFFER occurs only in 1Sa 6:8; 1 Samuel 6:11; 1 Samuel 6:15 , and the Heb. term ’argâz , of which it is the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] , is also found nowhere else. It appears to have been a small chest which contained (?) the golden figures sent by the Philistines as a guilt-offering.

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Coffer'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​c/coffer.html. 1909.
 
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