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# גְּנַז

Biblical Aramaic

**treasure** — used 3 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

treasure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5d6/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּנַז: n.m. treasure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5d6/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ezr 6:1 treasure (𝔗; v. BH \[גְנָזִים\], sub גנז);—pl. emph. גִּנְזַיָּא treasures Ezr 6:1, בֵּית ג׳ דִּי מַלְכָּא 5:17, cstr. בֵּית גִּנְזֵי מַלְכָּא 7:20.

### Jastrow 1903

גְּנַז: to save hidden, stored up, reserved to disappear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5d6/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** , to save.—Targ. II Kings XX, 17.—Part. pass. גְּנִיז, f. גְנִיזָא hidden, stored up, reserved. Targ. II Chr. XXXIV, 15. Targ. I Sam. XXV, 29.—Pl. גְּנִיזִין, גְּנִיזָן. Targ. O. Deut. XXXII, 34. Targ. Hos. XIII, 12.—Targ. Prov. XXX, 18. to disappear. Targ. Y. Num. XX, 2; 13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech differs, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of (1); of the treasures (1); the (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.20/#tree)

וּשְׁאָ֗ר חַשְׁחוּת֙ בֵּ֣ית אֱלָהָ֔ךְ דִּ֥י יִפֶּל־לָ֖ךְ לְמִנְתַּ֑ן תִּנְתֵּ֕ן מִן־בֵּ֖ית גִּנְזֵ֥י מַלְכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* and the.rest of.the.thing\[s\].needed of.the.house of your.God which it.will.fall to you to give you.will.give from the.house of.the.treasures of the.king

*JPS 1917:* And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure-house.

[Ezra 6:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.1/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֛יִן דָּרְיָ֥וֶשׁ מַלְכָּ֖א שָׂ֣ם טְעֵ֑ם וּבַקַּ֣רוּ ׀ בְּבֵ֣ית סִפְרַיָּ֗א דִּ֧י גִנְזַיָּ֛א מְהַחֲתִ֥ין תַּמָּ֖ה בְּבָבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* then Darius the king he.made a.decree and they.searched in the.house of the.books where the treasures \[were\].deposited there in Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up, in Babylon.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5d6.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5d6/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).