ar.gaz is a container placed beside the ark and used to hold gold articles.

The term denotes a singular container associated with the ark: it receives gold articles in 1 Samuel 6:8 and is carried with the ark in 1 Samuel 6:11 and 1 Samuel 6:15.

1. Container for gold articles beside the ark · dominant

   All three occurrences use the masculine singular absolute form in the setting of the ark. In 1 Samuel 6:8 the APB renders that gold articles are placed “in the box at its side”; in 1 Samuel 6:11 and 1 Samuel 6:15 it renders the container as accompanying the ark, with gold items in it in the latter verse.

   1 Samuel 6:81 Samuel 6:111 Samuel 6:15

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “the box” in each occurrence, describing it as beside or with the ark and as containing gold articles. This rendering is confirmed by the shared clause setting rather than treated as a precise lexical equivalence.