אוֹצָר
storehouse
‘storehouse’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
6 verses where H214 appears in the Construct state in the Book of 2 Chronicles. 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 5:1 בְּ/אֹצְר֖וֹת prep + n c mp cs 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 11:11 וְ/אֹצְר֥וֹת conj + n c mp cs He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, and oil and wine.
- 2 Chronicles 12:9 אֹצְר֣וֹת אֹֽצְרוֹת֙ n c mp cs n c mp cs 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 מֵ/אֹֽצְר֛וֹת prep + n c mp cs 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 אֹצְרוֹת֙ n c mp cs [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 36:18 וְ/אֹֽצְרוֹת֙ וְ/אֹצְר֥וֹת conj + n c mp cs conj + n c mp cs 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.
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.
The Hebrew noun אוצר centers on the idea of “storehouse.” Where the King James Version says “treasures,” newer translations reach for “treasuries” (Berean Standard Bible) and “treasuries of” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 70 verses across 19 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. Debuting at Deuteronomy 28:12, it then recurs through the corpus. The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H214 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 70
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 70 distinct verses.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #506
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 506 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 70 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 11 verses 16%
- 1 Chronicles 10 verses 14%
- 2 Chronicles 8 verses 11%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 70 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 34 verses · 49%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 34 verses · 49%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 3%
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: Treasures 35×, Treasure 9×, Treasuries 5×
- American Standard Version: Treasures 29×, Treasuries 11×, Treasure 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Treasuries 19×, Treasures 15×, Storehouses 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Treasuries of 17×, Treasuries 11×, Treasures of 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H214 across 79 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 25 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 H214 across 78 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 20 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 H214 across 71 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H214 across 74 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
9 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 9 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. treasure(s), gen. pl. (gold, silver, costly utensils, etc.) Jos 6:19, 24; Is 2:7; 30:6; 45:3 (א׳ חֹשֶׁךְ, i.e. concealed, hoarded) Ho 13:15; Je 15:13; 17:3; 20:5; 48:7; 49:4; 51:13; 1 K 14:26(×2) 2 K 24:13(×2), perhaps also Is 39:2, 4 = 2 K 20:13, 15; wealth Pr 15:16; 21:6, 20; gathered for temple-building (sg.) א׳ בֵּית י׳ 1 Ch 29:8, א׳ הַמְּלָאכָה Ezr 2:69 = Ne 7:71(70), also v 70(69) (cf. 1 Ch 26:27). e.g. Joshua 6:19
- 2. store, supply of food, drink, etc., 2 Ch 11:11; 1 Ch 27:27, 28; fig. א׳ רֶשַׁע Mi 6:10 Pr 10:2; יִרְאַת י׳ הִיא אוֹצָרוֹ Is 33:6. e.g. 2 Chronicles 11:11
- 3. בֵּית אוֹצָר
- a. treasure-house Ne 10:39 cf. Dn 1:2; e.g. Nehemiah 10:39
- b. storehouse, magazine Mal 3:10; & without בית e.g. Malachi 3:10
- 4.
- a. treasure-house or chamber, treasury 1 K 7:51; 15:18(×2) 2 K 12:19; 14:14; 16:8; 18:15 Je 38:11; 50:37 (?) 1 Ch 9:26; 26:20(×2), 22, 24, 26; 28:12(×2) 2 Ch 5:1; 16:2 (?) 32:27 cf. Ez 28:4; e.g. 1 Kings 7:51
- b. storehouse Jo 1:17 Pr 8:21 1 Ch 27:25(×2) Ne 13:12, 13; e.g. Joel 1:17
- c. magazine of weapons, fig. of Yahweh’s armoury Je 50:25; e.g. Jeremiah 50:25
- d. storehouses of God for rain, snow, hail, wind, sea Dt 28:12; Jb 38:22(×2) Je 10:13; 51:16 ψ 135:7; 33:7. e.g. Deuteronomy 28:12
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Pr 15:16 treasure, store, treasury, storehouse (so Aramaic, also ܐܰܘܨܪܳܐ )—אוֹצָר Pr 15:16 +; cstr. אוֹצַר Jos 6:19 +; sf. אוֹצָרוֹ Dt 28:12 + 2 times; pl. אֹצָרוֹת Jo 1:17 +; אוֹצָרוֹת Pr 21:6 +; cstr. אוֹצְרוֹת Pr 10:2 +; אֹצְרוֹת Jb 38:22 +; pl. sf. אוֹצְרֹתָֽי׃ Dt 32:34 Is 39:4; אוֹצְרֹתָֽי׃ Dt 32:34; אוֹצְרוֹתֶיךָ Je 17:3; אוֹצְרוֹתָם Is 30:6; אֹצְרֹתֵיהֶם Pr 8:21, etc.—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אצר (ʼâtsar) (H686) — to store up.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אוֹצָר
- store-house, magazine; provision; hoarded up treasure. B. Bath. 58ᵃ; Git. 67ᵃ, v. בָּלַם a. בָּלַס. Ab. Zar. 40ᵇ; v. הֶפְתֵּק; a. fr.—Esp. treasury, the (Roman) government’s treasury department where taxes in kind and money had to be paid. Y. Dem. VI, end, 26ᵃ ושקול על ידי לא׳ and pay for me in the treasury-department. Tosef. Dem. VI, 4 ושקול תחתיי מן הא׳ (read אל הא׳). Ib. 3 ושוקל לא׳ ed. Zuck. (ed. incorr. ואוצר). Ib. 4 פוטריני מן הא׳ get me a release from the treasury-dep.—Y. Dem. l. c. פרשיני מן הא׳ (read פוטריני). Ab. Zar. 71ᵃ לא׳, מן הא׳, Ms. M. (ed. עוצר); cmp. אָצַר.—Pl. אוֹצָרוֹת. B. Bath. 11ᵃ גנזו א׳ Ms. (ed. א׳ omitted); v. גָּנַז.—Ḥag. 12ᵇ אוֹצְרוֹת שלג וכ׳ the stores of snow &c. (in the heavens); a. fr. V. אֹצְרוֹת, א׳ רוח.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 64 distinct written forms H214 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 4 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H214, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 59 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 70 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Deuteronomy 28:12
- Joshua 6:19
- 1 Kings 15:18
- 2 Kings 12:18
- 1 Chronicles 9:26
- 2 Chronicles 5:1
- Ezra 2:69
- Job 38:22
- Psalms 33:7
- Proverbs 8:21
- Isaiah 2:7
- Jeremiah 10:13
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
