Coffin

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Coffin - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Used in Gen. 50:26 with reference to the burial of Joseph. Here, it means a mummy-chest. The same Hebrew word is rendered "chest" in 2 Kings 12:9, 10.

Coffin - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

COFFIN, n.

1. The chest or box in which a dead human body is buried, or deposited in a vault.

2. A mold of paste for a pie.

3. A paper case, in the form of a cone, used by grocers.

4. In farriery, the hollow part of a horses hoof; or the whole hoof above the coronet, including the coffin-bone, which is a small spungy bone in the midst of the hoof, and possessing the whole form of the hoof.

COFFIN, v.t. To put in or inclose in a coffin.

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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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