Coffer

The receptacle or small box placed beside the ark by the Philistines, in which they deposited the golden mice and the emerods as their trespass-offering (1 Sam. 6:8, 11, 15).

(argaz), a movable box hanging from the side of a cart. (1 Samuel 6:8,11,15) The word is found nowhere else.

COF'FER, "a movable box hanging from the side of a cart." 1 Sam 6:8, Rev 1:11, 2 Sam 20:15.

COF'FER, "a movable box hanging from the side of a cart." 1 Sam 6:8, Rev 1:11, 2 Sam 20:15.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak.

2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural. He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. Bacon. Hold, here is half my coffer. Shak.

3. A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

4. A trench dug in the botton of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

5. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary. -- Coffer fish. (Zoöl.) See Cowfish.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To put into a coffer. Bacon.

2. To secure from leaking, as a chaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond.

3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to turnish with a coffer or coffers.