STRONGS NUMBER H712


Word Summary
argaz: a box, chest
Original Word: אַרְגָּז
Transliteration: argaz
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-gawz')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a box, chest
Meaning: a box, chest
Strong's Concordance
coffer

Perhaps from ragaz (in the sense of being suspended), a box (as a pannier) -- coffer.

see HEBREW ragaz

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H712. argaz

אֶרְגַּזnoun masculine box, chest, or like receptacle (compare Arabic a kind of (camel-) vehicle for women, also a garment containing stones, etc., as balance, makeweight (at side of haudaj); from above √, as swaying ? Syriac sack, Talmud אַרְגָּזchest, coffin); — ׳הָא1 Samuel 6:8, 11, 15, compare HPS.