אַרְגַּז
chest
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H712 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel 3 verses
- 1 Samuel 6:8 בָ/אַרְגַּ֖ז prep det + n c ms and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass-offering, in a coffer by the side of it; and send it away, that it may go.
- 1 Samuel 6:11 הָ/אַרְגַּ֗ז ptcl def.art + n c ms and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
- 1 Samuel 6:15 הָ/אַרְגַּ֤ז ptcl def.art + n c ms The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“chest” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun ארגז (ʼargâz). It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 1 Samuel. First canonically at 1 Samuel 6:8, it enters the text early. Related forms include רגז, רגז and רגז. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H712 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Samuel 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Coffer 3×
- American Standard Version: Coffer 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Chest 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Box 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H712 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H712 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H712 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H712 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- box, chest, coffer
Word origin
אַרְגַּז n.m. box, cheat, or like receptacle
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רגז (râgaz) (H7264) — to tremble.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַרְגָּז
- r. ארג with format. ז; cmp. אַרְבָּא) box, chest (joined with tenons &c.). Num. R. s. 4; Hor. 12ᵃ; a. e.—Snh. 46ᵇ kabor (to bury, cover) might mean only דעבד א׳ וכ׳ Ms. F. a. Ar. (Var. ארזג, ed. ארון) one makes a chest and puts the corpse in. [Pr. n. pl. v. אַרְגִּיזָא.]
אַרְגִּיז
- Argiz, Argiza (ארזק Schr. KGF 228; Eragiza, Ptol. V, 15, 14; modern Razek, Koh. Ar. s. v.). Sabb. 19ᵇ; Erub. 63ᵃ חדתא דא׳ Ms. M. a. oth. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. notes, ed. חרתא) Ḥadta (Newtown) [Ḥarta] near Ar. [Rashi: Argiz, pr. n. m. the builder of the town.] Gitt. 7ᵃ ארגיזה, בי א׳. Zeb. 18ᵇ ארגיזא (Ms. M. אגוזיא, Ms. R. ארגיסיא, ארגזיא, Ms. K. ארגיזיא; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l.).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H712 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בָ/אַרְגַּ֖ז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 6:8 | 1 |
| הָ/אַרְגַּ֗ז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 6:11 | 1 |
| הָ/אַרְגַּ֤ז | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 6:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H712, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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