θησαυρός
treasure
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
4 distinct verses where G2344 appears in the Genitive case, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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 2 verses
- Matthew 12:35 θησαυροῦ θησαυροῦ n gen sg masc n gen sg masc The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.
- Matthew 13:52 θησαυροῦ n gen sg masc He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."
Luke 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
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.
θησαυρος — transliterated thēsaurós — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “treasure.” More than half of its appearances fall in Matthew. It appears 16 verses across 6 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 2:11. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2344 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 →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #697
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 697 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 16 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 16 distinct verses.
- Gospels 13 verses · 81%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 13%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 6%
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: Treasure 13×, Treasures 5×
- American Standard Version: Treasure 12×, Treasures 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Treasure 9×, Treasures 5×, Store of treasure 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Treasure 12×, Treasures 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2344 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2344 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G2344 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 G2344 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- the place in which good and precious things are collected and laid up
- the things laid up in a treasury, collected treasures
Word origin
Derived from τιθημι (títhēmi) (G5087) — to place.
From G5087 ; a deposit that is wealth (literally or figuratively): - treasure.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G2344 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θησαυρὸν thēsauròn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 19:21 | 5 |
| θησαυροῦ thēsauroû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 12:35 | 4 |
| θησαυροὺς thēsauroùs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 2:11 | 3 |
| θησαυροὶ thēsauroì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Colossians 2:3 | 1 |
| θησαυρός thēsaurós | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 6:21 | 1 |
| θησαυρὸς thēsauròs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 12:34 | 1 |
| θησαυρῶν thēsaurō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 11:26 | 1 |
| θησαυρῷ thēsaurō̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 13:44 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2344, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θησαυρος appears 77 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 69 verses in 19 books.
- 77
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 69
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 43:23 θησαυρός
- Deuteronomy 28:12 θησαυρός
- Joshua 6:19 θησαυρός
- Judges 18:7 θησαυρός
- 1 Kings 7:37 θησαυρός
- 2 Kings 12:19 θησαυρός
- 1 Chronicles 9:26 θησαυρός
- 2 Chronicles 5:1 θησαυρός
- Ezra 2:69 θησαυρός
- Job 3:21 θησαυρός
- Psalms 32:7 θησαυρός
- Proverbs 2:4 θησαυρός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2344) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 69. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 43:23 θησαυρός He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them.
- Deuteronomy 28:12 θησαυρός Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.
- Deuteronomy 32:34 θησαυρός Isn't this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
- Joshua 6:19 θησαυρός But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh: they shall come into the treasury of Yahweh.
- Joshua 6:24 θησαυρός They burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh.
- Judges 18:7 θησαυρός Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.
- 1 Kings 7:37 θησαυρός After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
- 1 Kings 14:6 θησαυρός It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy news.
- 1 Kings 15:18 θησαυρός Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
- 2 Kings 12:19 θησαυρός Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 14:14 θησαυρός He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
- 2 Kings 16:8 θησαυρός Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
- 2 Kings 18:15 θησαυρός Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house.
- 2 Kings 20:13 θησαυρός Hezekiah listened to them, and shown them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.
- 2 Kings 20:15 θησαυρός He said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.
- 2 Kings 24:13 θησαυρός He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said.
- 1 Chronicles 9:26 θησαυρός for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 26:20 θησαυρός Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
- 1 Chronicles 26:22 θησαυρός The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 26:24 θησαυρός and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures.
- 1 Chronicles 26:26 θησαυρός This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers' [houses], the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
- 1 Chronicles 27:25 θησαυρός Over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah:
- 1 Chronicles 27:27 θησαυρός and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine-cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
- 1 Chronicles 27:28 θησαυρός and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:
- 2 Chronicles 5:1 θησαυρός Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 8:15 θησαυρός They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
- 2 Chronicles 12:9 θησαυρός So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
- 2 Chronicles 16:2 θησαυρός Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Yahweh and of the king's house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
- 2 Chronicles 25:24 θησαυρός [He took] all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
- 2 Chronicles 32:27 θησαυρός Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of goodly vessels;
- 2 Chronicles 36:18 θησαυρός All the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
- Ezra 2:69 θησαυρός they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
- Ezra 5:14 θησαυρός The gold and silver vessels also of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
- Ezra 17:70 θησαυρός
- Ezra 17:71 θησαυρός
- Ezra 20:40 θησαυρός
- Ezra 22:44 θησαυρός
- Ezra 23:12 θησαυρός
- Job 3:21 θησαυρός Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
- Job 38:22 θησαυρός Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, Or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
- Psalms 32:7 θησαυρός You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Psalms 134:7 θησαυρός
- Proverbs 2:4 θησαυρός If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures:
- Proverbs 3:14 θησαυρός For her good profit is better than getting silver, And her return is better than fine gold.
- Proverbs 8:21 θησαυρός That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
- Proverbs 10:2 θησαυρός Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, But righteousness delivers from death.
- Proverbs 15:16 θησαυρός Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, Than great treasure with trouble.
- Proverbs 21:20 θησαυρός There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man swallows it up.
- Isaiah 2:7 θησαυρός Their land is full of silver and gold, Neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, Neither is there any end of their chariots.
- Isaiah 33:6 θησαυρός There shall be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2344) 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.