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# גִּזְבָּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1489

**treasurer** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

treasurer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1489/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּזְבָּר: n.m. treasurer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1489/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. treasurer (loan-word; NH id.; cf. Biblical Aramaic \[גִּזְבָּר\], pl. גִּזְבָּרַיָּא; Syriac ܓܺܙܒܰܪ, ܓܺܙܰܒܪܳܐ, also ܓܰܢܙܘܳܪ, Pers. گنجوار, cf. LagGes Abh. 27 f., Arm. Stud. § 454), Ezr 1:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezra 1:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.1.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.1.8/#tree)

וַיּֽוֹצִיאֵ֗םכּ֚וֹרֶשׁ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרַ֔ס עַל־יַ֖ד מִתְרְדָ֣ת הַגִּזְבָּ֑ר וַֽיִּסְפְּרֵם֙ לְשֵׁשְׁבַּצַּ֔ר הַנָּשִׂ֖יא לִיהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he brought.them.out Cyrus the.king of.Persia on the.hand of.Mithredath the treasurer and he counted.them.out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah

*JPS 1917:* even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1489.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1489/): 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).