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).
Coffer
When the Philistines sent the ark of the LORD home, they did not send it empty. First Samuel 6 says to put “the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof.” The cart carried the ark and “the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.” At Bethshemesh the Levites took down the ark and the coffer, and the men offered burnt offerings to the LORD. A coffer is only a chest, and here it holds a gift meant to make amends. Read 1 Samuel 6.
3 verses
1 Samuel
1 Samuel 6:8
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 trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
1 Samuel 6:11
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
1 Samuel 6:15
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
(argaz), a movable box hanging from the side of a cart. (1 Samuel 6:8,11,15) The word is found nowhere else.