To heap
צָבַרStrong’s H6651tsavar (tsa-var)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsavar is the Hebrew word usually translated “it heaped up”, “let them store up” and “stored up”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to heap up, pile upof grain, dust, silver
How it's translated
- and it heaped up 2
- and let them store up 1
- and he stored up 1
- and people piled up 1
- he will heap up 1
- he heaps up 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Habakkuk 1
- Zechariah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:35And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
- Genesis 41:49And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
- Exodus 8:14And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
- Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
- Psalms 39:6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
- Habakkuk 1:10And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Hebrew dictionary
צָבַר tsavar · to heap
1) (Qal) to heap up, pile up 1a) of grain, dust, silver
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heap” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEAP, noun
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; as a heap of earth or stones.
- A crowd; a throng; a cluster; applied to living persons.
- A mass of ruins.“Thou hast made of a city a heap” Isaiah 25:2
All definitions and other forms of “heap”
HEAP, verb transitive
- To throw or lay in a heap; to pile; as, to heap stones; often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.
- To amass; to accumulate; to lay up; to collect in great quantity; with up; as, to heap up treasures.“Though the wicked heap up silver as the dust--” Job 27:16
- To add something else, in large quantities.
- To pile; to add till the mass takes a roundish form, or till it rises above the measure; as, to heap any thing in measuring.
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.