Treasurer
גְּדָֽבְרַיָּאStrong’s H1489gedavar (ge-da-var)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Gedavar is the Hebrew word usually translated “treasurer”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Treasurer
How it's translated
- the treasurer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
גְּדָֽבְרַיָּא gedavar · treasurer
treasurer Aramaic of giz.bar (גִּזְבָּר "treasurer" H1489)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “treasurer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TREASURER, noun
trezh'urer. One who has the care of a treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders drawn by the proper authority. Incorporated companies and private societies have also their treasurers.
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.