Treasurer
גִּזְבָּרStrong’s H1490gizbar (giz-bar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Gizbar is the Aramaic word usually translated “treasurers the”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,”
Meaning
- Treasurer
How it's translated
- treasurers the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
גִּזְבָּר gizbar · 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.