Bible dictionaries
Coffin
What Bible dictionaries say about “Coffin”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
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.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915Smith’s Bible Dictionary
William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3
The article in Smith