To treasure
צָפַןStrong’s H6845tsaphan (tsa-phan)
Appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsaphan is the Hebrew word usually translated “lie hidden”, “hid him” and “stores up”. It appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.”
Meaning
- To hide, treasure, treasure or store up(Qal) · (Niphal) to be hidden, be stored up · (Hiphil) to hide, hide from discovery
How it's translated
- they lie hidden 3
- and she hid him 2
- he stores up 2
- you will treasure 2
- to hide him 1
- you hid 1
- you will hide me 1
- they have been stored up 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 8
- Psalms 8
- Proverbs 8
- Exodus 2
- Joshua 1
- Song of Solomon 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 2:3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
- Joshua 2:4And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
- Job 10:13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
- Job 14:13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Job 15:20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
- Job 17:4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Hebrew dictionary
צָפַן tsaphan · to treasure
1) to hide, treasure, treasure or store up 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to hide, treasure, treasure up 1a2) to lie hidden, lurk 1b) (Niphal) to be hidden, be stored up 1c) (Hiphil) to hide, hide from discovery
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.