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# אוֹצָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H214

**treasure** — used 79 times in the Hebrew 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/tanakh/1488/214/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אוֹצָר: n.m. treasure, store, treasury, storehouse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/214/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 15:16 treasure, store, treasury, storehouse (so Aramaic, also ܐܰܘܨܪܳܐ )—אוֹצָר Pr 15:16 +; cstr. אוֹצַר Jos 6:19 +; sf. אוֹצָרוֹ Dt 28:12 + 2 times; pl. אֹצָרוֹת Jo 1:17 +; אוֹצָרוֹת Pr 21:6 +; cstr. אוֹצְרוֹת Pr 10:2 +; אֹצְרוֹת Jb 38:22 +; pl. sf. אוֹצְרֹתָֽי׃ Dt 32:34 Is 39:4; אוֹצְרֹתָֽי׃ Dt 32:34; אוֹצְרוֹתֶיךָ Je 17:3; אוֹצְרוֹתָם Is 30:6; אֹצְרֹתֵיהֶם Pr 8:21, etc.— treasure(s), gen. pl. (gold, silver, costly utensils, etc.) Jos 6:19, 24; Is 2:7; 30:6; 45:3 (א׳ חֹשֶׁךְ, i.e. concealed, hoarded) Ho 13:15; Je 15:13; 17:3; 20:5; 48:7; 49:4; 51:13; 1 K 14:26(×2) 2 K 24:13(×2), perhaps also Is 39:2, 4 = 2 K 20:13, 15; wealth Pr 15:16; 21:6, 20; gathered for temple-building (sg.) א׳ בֵּית י׳ 1 Ch 29:8, א׳ הַמְּלָאכָה Ezr 2:69 = Ne 7:71(70), also v 70(69) (cf. 1 Ch 26:27). store, supply of food, drink, etc., 2 Ch 11:11; 1 Ch 27:27, 28; fig. א׳ רֶשַׁע Mi 6:10 Pr 10:2; יִרְאַת י׳ הִיא אוֹצָרוֹ Is 33:6. בֵּית אוֹצָר treasure-house Ne 10:39 cf. Dn 1:2; storehouse, magazine Mal 3:10; & without בית treasure-house or chamber, treasury 1 K 7:51; 15:18(×2) 2 K 12:19; 14:14; 16:8; 18:15 Je 38:11; 50:37 (?) 1 Ch 9:26; 26:20(×2), 22, 24, 26; 28:12(×2) 2 Ch 5:1; 16:2 (?) 32:27 cf. Ez 28:4; storehouse Jo 1:17 Pr 8:21 1 Ch 27:25(×2) Ne 13:12, 13; magazine of weapons, fig. of Yahweh’s armoury Je 50:25; storehouses of God for rain, snow, hail, wind, sea Dt 28:12; Jb 38:22(×2) Je 10:13; 51:16 ψ 135:7; 33:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 65 of its verses cited, 4 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: storehouses (12); the treasures (11); the storehouses (9).

## In the verses

[Job 38:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.22/#tree)

הֲ֭בָאתָ אֶל־אֹצְר֣וֹת שָׁ֑לֶג וְאֹצְר֖וֹת בָּרָ֣ד תִּרְאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* have you.gone? into \[the\].storehouses of.snow and.\[the\] storehouses of.hail have.you.seen?

*JPS 1917:* Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,

[Proverbs 8:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.21/#tree)

לְהַנְחִ֖יל אֹהֲבַ֥י ׀ יֵ֑שׁ וְאֹצְרֹ֖תֵיהֶ֣ם אֲמַלֵּֽא׃פ

*Word for word:* to give.as.an.inheritance \[those who\].love.me substance and treasuries their I.fill

*JPS 1917:* That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/214.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/214/): 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).