The Definition of the word Chest

Chest

(Heb. 'aron, generally rendered ark"), the coffer into which" the contributions for the repair of the temple were put (2 Kings "12:9, 10; 2 Chr. 24:8, 10, 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."