ἀποθήκη
storehouse
‘storehouse’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G596 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
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.
“storehouse” is the headline sense of the Greek noun αποθηκη (apothḗkē). It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. It turns up in 6 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 3:12. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G596 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
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 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 50%
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: Barn 2×, Barns 2×, Garner 2×
- American Standard Version: Barn 2×, Barns 2×, Garner 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Barn 4×, Barns 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Barn 2×, Barns 2×, Storehouse 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G596 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G596 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G596 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G596 across 6 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.
- a place in which anything is laid by or up
- a storehouse, granary
Word origin
Derived from αποτιθημι (apotíthēmi) (G659) — to put away.
From G659 ; a repository that is granary : - barn garner.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G596 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀποθήκην apothḗkēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 3:12 | 3 |
| ἀποθήκας apothḗkas | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 6:26 | 2 |
| ἀποθήκη apothḗkē | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 12:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G596, 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
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αποθηκη appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 5 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 16:23 ἀποθήκη
- Deuteronomy 28:5 ἀποθήκη
- 1 Chronicles 28:11 ἀποθήκη
- Jeremiah 27:26 ἀποθήκη
- Ezekiel 28:13 ἀποθήκη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G596) 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.
- Exodus 16:23 ἀποθήκη He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning."
- Exodus 16:32 ἀποθήκη Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt."
- Deuteronomy 28:5 ἀποθήκη Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
- Deuteronomy 28:17 ἀποθήκη Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
- 1 Chronicles 28:11 ἀποθήκη Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch [of the temple], and of the houses of it, and of the treasuries of it, and of the upper rooms of it, and of the inner chambers of it, and of the place of the mercy seat;
- 1 Chronicles 28:12 ἀποθήκη and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the house of Yahweh, and for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of God, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
- 1 Chronicles 28:13 ἀποθήκη also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Yahweh;
- 1 Chronicles 29:8 ἀποθήκη They with whom [precious] stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of Yahweh, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
- Jeremiah 27:26 ἀποθήκη
- Ezekiel 28:13 ἀποθήκη You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G596) 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.