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Chest
(Heb. ’aron, generally rendered “ark”), the coffer into which the contributions for the repair of the temple were put (2 Kgs 12:9, 2 Kgs 12:10; 2 Chr 24:8, 2 Chr 24:10, 2 Chr 24:11). In Gen 50:26 it is rendered “coffin.” In Ezek 27:24 a different Hebrew word, genazim (plur.), is used. It there means “treasure-chests.”
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
