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# אַרְגַּז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H712

**box** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

box [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/712/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְגַּז: n.m. box, chest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/712/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. box, chest, or like receptacle (cf. Arabic رِجَازَةٌ a kind of (camel-) vehicle for woman, also a garment containing stones, etc., as balance, makeweight (at side of haudaj); from above √, as swaying? Syriac ܪܳܓܽܘܙܬܳܐ sack, Talm. אַרְגָּז chest, coffin);—הָא׳ 1 S 6:8, 11, 15, cf. HPS.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: box (3).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 6:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.11/#tree)

וַיָּשִׂ֛מוּ אֶת־אֲר֥וֹן יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־הָעֲגָלָ֑ה וְאֵ֣ת הָאַרְגַּ֗ז וְאֵת֙ עַכְבְּרֵ֣י הַזָּהָ֔ב וְאֵ֖ת צַלְמֵ֥י טְחֹרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.put (et) the.ark of.Yahweh into the cart and (et) the box and (et) the.mice of.(the) gold and (et) the.images their.tumors their

*JPS 1917:* And they put the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

[1 Samuel 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.8/#tree)

וּלְקַחְתֶּ֞ם אֶת־אֲר֣וֹן יְהוָ֗ה וּנְתַתֶּ֤ם אֹתוֹ֙ אֶל־הָ֣עֲגָלָ֔ה וְאֵ֣ת ׀ כְּלֵ֣י הַזָּהָ֗ב אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֲשֵׁבֹתֶ֥ם לוֹ֙ אָשָׁ֔ם תָּשִׂ֥ימוּ בָאַרְגַּ֖ז מִצִּדּ֑וֹ וְשִׁלַּחְתֶּ֥ם אֹת֖וֹ וְהָלָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.take (et) the.ark of.Yahweh and you.will.put it into the cart and (et) the.articles of.(the) gold which you.have.sent.back to him a.guilt.offering you.will.put in the box from side its and you.will.send.away it and it.will.go

*JPS 1917:* 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 side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/712.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/712/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).