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Storehouse

אָסֹףStrong’s H0624

asuph (a-suph)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Asuph is the Hebrew word usually translated “store”, “storehouses” and “at storerooms of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.”
1 Chronicles 26:15 KJV
Meaning
  1. What is gathered, store, storing, storehouse
  2. (CLBL) threshold (metonomy)
How it's translated
  • the store 1
  • and for the storehouses 1
  • at storerooms of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Chronicles 2
  • Nehemiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

אָסֹף asuph · storehouse

1) what is gathered, store, storing, storehouse 2) (CLBL) threshold (metonomy)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “storehouse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

STORE-HOUSE, noun

[store and house.]

  1. A building for keeping grain or goods of any kind; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.“Joseph opened all the store-houses and sold to the Egyptians” Genesis 41:56
  2. A repository.
  3. A great mass reposited. [Not in use.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.