Treasure
גְּנַזStrong’s H1596genaz (ge-naz)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Genaz is the Aramaic word usually translated “treasures the” and “treasures of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”
Meaning
- Treasure
How it's translated
- treasures the 2
- treasures of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
גְּנַז genaz · treasure
treasure Aramaic of ge.nez (גְּנָזִים "treasury" H1595)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “treasure” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TREASURE, noun
trezh'ur. [Latin thesaurus.]
- Wealth accumulated; particularly, a stock or store of money in reserve.
- A great quantity of any thing collected for future use.“We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey” Jeremiah 41:8
- Something very much valued. Psalms 135:4“Ye shall be a peculiar treasure to me” Exodus 19:5
- Great abundance.“In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” Colossians 2:3
All definitions and other forms of “treasure”
TREASURE, verb transitive
trezh'ur. To hoard; to collect and reposit, either money or other things, for future use; to lay up; as, to treasure gold and silver; usually with up. Sinners are said to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath.
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.