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What is a hope chest? Well, it is a piece of furniture that is used as storage and can therefore be used for anything you wish to use it for in and around the home. However, the true definition of a hope chest as given by wordreference.com is:

hope chest, wedding chest chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage

As such, traditionally, a hope chest is therefore used for "a young woman's accumulation of clothes and domestic furnishings (as silver and linen) kept in anticipation of her marriage."
A hope chest (originally called a wedding chest) or glory box is a box containing items typically stored by unmarried young women in anticipation of future marriages or married lives. The term "hope chest" may be used primarily by Midwestern American women. The term "glory box" is used by women in the United Kingdom and Australia. Common contents of a "hope chest" or "glory box" include clothing (such as a special dress), table linens, towels, bed linens, quilts and occasionally dishware.

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There are, unfortunately, no trustworthy descriptions of ancient Hebrew furniture. The illustrations in Kitto's Bible. Mr. Henry Soltan's "The Tabernacle, the Priesthood, and the Offerings," and other similar books, are apparently drawn from imagination, founded on descriptions in the Old Testament. In these, the "table for shew-bread" is generally represented as having legs partly turned, with the upper portions square, to which rings were attached for the poles by which it was carried. As a nomadic people, their furniture would be but primitive, and we may take it that as the Jews and Assyrians came from the same stock, and spoke the same language, such ornamental furniture as there was would, with the exception of the representations of figures of men or animals, be of a similar character.


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