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# אָצַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H686

**lay up** — used 5 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

lay up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/686/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָצַר: vb. lay up, store up be stored up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/686/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. lay up, store up (Mish. id., Aramaic אֲצַר, ܐܶܨܰܪ, Arabic أَصَرَ confine, restrict)— Pf. 3 pl. אָֽצְרוּ 2 K 20:17 Is 39:6; Pt. הָאֹצְרִים Am 3:10;—store up treasure 2 K 20:17 = Is 39:6; obj. חָמָס וָשֹׁד Am 3:10, i.e. treasure gained by violence and robbery. Impf. יֵאָצֵר be stored up, of the merchandise of Tyre Is 23:18. Impf. וָאוֹצְרָה (cf. Köi 391) (denom. from אוֹצָר) Ne 13:13 and I appointed treasurer, sq. acc. pers. + עַל־אוֹצָרוֹת.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they have stored up (2); I (1); it will be stored up (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 3:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.3.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.3.10/#tree)

וְלֹֽא־יָדְע֥וּ עֲשׂוֹת־נְכֹחָ֖ה נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה הָאֽוֹצְרִ֛ים חָמָ֥ס וָשֹׁ֖ד בְּאַרְמְנֽוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* and not they.know to.do straightforwardness the.utterance of.Yahweh \[those who\].store.up violence and devastation in fortresses their

*JPS 1917:* For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

[Isaiah 39:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.39.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.39.6/#tree)

הִנֵּה֮ יָמִ֣ים בָּאִים֒ וְנִשָּׂ֣א ׀ כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּבֵיתֶ֗ךָ וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר אָצְר֧וּ אֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ עַד־הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה בָּבֶ֑ל לֹֽא־יִוָּתֵ֥ר דָּבָ֖ר אָמַ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* here! days \[are\].coming and it.will.be.carried.off all that \[is\].in house your and that they.have.stored.up ancestors your until the day (the) this Babylon not it.will.be.left anything he.says Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/686.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/686/): 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).