Treasure
מַטְמוֹןStrong’s H4301matmon (mat-mon)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matmon is the Hebrew word usually translated “treasure”, “more than hidden treasures” and “like treasures”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.”
Meaning
- Hidden treasure, treasure
How it's translated
- treasure 1
- more than hidden treasures 1
- and like treasures 1
- and hidden treasures of 1
- treasures 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 3:21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
- Proverbs 2:4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
- Isaiah 45:3And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
- Jeremiah 41:8But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
Hebrew dictionary
מַטְמוֹן matmon · treasure
hidden treasure, treasure
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.