θησαυρίζω
to store up
‘to store up’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2343 appears in the Book of Matthew — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew
- Matthew 6:19 θησαυρίζετε pres act impv 2pl "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
- Matthew 6:20 θησαυρίζετε pres act impv 2pl but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, θησαυριζω (thēsaurízō) means “to store up.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 6:19. It appears 8 verses across 7 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Matthew (25%), then Luke and Romans. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2343 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 38%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 38%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Lay up 2×
- American Standard Version: Lay up 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Store up 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Store up 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2343 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2343 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2343 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2343 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to gather and lay up, to heap up, store up
- metaph. so to live from day to day as to increase either the bitterness or the happiness of one's consequent lot
Word origin
Derived from θησαυρος (thēsaurós) (G2344) — treasure.
From G2344 ; to amass or reserve (literally or figuratively): - lay up (treasure) (keep) in store (heap) treasure (together up).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2343 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θησαυρίζετε thēsaurízete | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Matthew 6:19 | 2 |
| θησαυρίζων thēsaurízōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 12:21 | 2 |
| θησαυρίζειν thēsaurízein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | 2 Corinthians 12:14 | 1 |
| θησαυρίζεις thēsaurízeis | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | Romans 2:5 | 1 |
| τεθησαυρισμένοι tethēsaurisménoi | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Peter 3:7 | 1 |
| ἐθησαυρίσατε ethēsaurísate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | James 5:3 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θησαυριζω appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 6 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Kings 20:17 θησαυρίζω
- Psalms 38:7 θησαυρίζω
- Proverbs 1:18 θησαυρίζω
- Amos 3:10 θησαυρίζω
- Micah 6:10 θησαυρίζω
- Zechariah 9:3 θησαυρίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2343) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Kings 20:17 θησαυρίζω Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh.
- Psalms 38:7 θησαυρίζω For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
- Proverbs 1:18 θησαυρίζω But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
- Proverbs 2:7 θησαυρίζω He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
- Proverbs 13:22 θησαυρίζω A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
- Proverbs 16:23 θησαυρίζω The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, And adds learning to his lips.
- Amos 3:10 θησαυρίζω "Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."
- Micah 6:10 θησαυρίζω Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, And a short ephah that is accursed?
- Zechariah 9:3 θησαυρίζω Tyre built herself a stronghold, And heaped up silver like the dust, And fine gold like the mire of the streets.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2343) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
