Treasury
גְּנָזִיםStrong’s H1595genez (ge-nez)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Genez is the Hebrew word usually translated “treasuries of” and “blankets of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”
Meaning
- Treasury, chests?chests (of variegated cloth) (meaning uncertain) · treasury
How it's translated
- treasuries of 2
- and for blankets of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 2
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 4:7And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
- Ezekiel 27:24These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
Hebrew dictionary
גְּנָזִים genez · treasury
1) treasury, chests? 1a) chests (of variegated cloth) (meaning uncertain) 1b) treasury Aramaic equivalent: ge.naz (גְּנַז "treasure" H1596)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “treasury” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TREASURY, noun
trezh'ury. A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposited; particularly, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government.
- A building appropriated for keeping public money. John 8:20
- The officer or officers of the treasury department.
- A repository of abundance.
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.