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 Samuel 6:8, 11, 15).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.

2. (n.) Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.

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

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

5. (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.

6. (v. t.) To put into a coffer.

7. (v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.

8. (v. t.) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.