מַטְמוֹן
treasure
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (60%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (20%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4301 appears — 5 distinct verses across 5 books. 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.
Genesis 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Proverbs 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 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.
מטמון (maṭmôwn) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “treasure.” It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 43:23. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4301 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
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 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 40%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 20%
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: Hid treasures 1×, Hidden riches 1×, More than for hid treasures 1×
- American Standard Version: Dig for it more than for hid treasures 1×, Hid treasures 1×, Hidden riches 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Like hidden treasure 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hidden treasure 1×, Hidden treasures 1×, Hoards of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4301 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4301 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4301 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H4301 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- hidden treasure, treasure
Word origin
n.m. hidden treasure, treasure;—abs. מַטְמוֹן Gn 43:23; pl. מַטְמֹנִים Je 41:8 Pr 2:4; מַטְמוֹנִים Jb 3:21; cstr. מַטְמֻנֵי Is 45:3; (hidden) treasure Gn 43:23 (of money in sacks); מַטְמֻנֵי מִסְתָּרים Is 45:3 (i.e. treasures now hidden in secret places, shall become spoil of Cyrus; ‖ אוצרות חשׁך), Je 41:8, appos. חִטִּים שְׂעֹרִים שֶׁמֶן דבשׁ; in compar. Jb 3:21 (longing for death more than for treasure), Pr 2:4 (wisdom sought for like treasure).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from טמן (ṭâman) (H2934) — to hide.
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.
מַטְמוֹן
- secret chamber, treasury; treasure.—Pl. מַטְמוֹנִים. Num. R. s. 9 התחילו … לתוך המ׳ the inhabitants of the city began to put their gold and silver in the secret chambers of the fortress; Tanḥ. Naso 5. Lev. R. s. 1 הולך במ׳ he goes (to her) through secret walks (of the palace), v. next w. Cant. R. to I, 1, v. חָפַשׂ; a. e.
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 5 distinct written forms H4301 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְֽ/כַ/מַּטְמוֹנִ֥ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Proverbs 2:4 | 1 |
| וּ/מַטְמֻנֵ֖י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 45:3 | 1 |
| מִ/מַּטְמוֹנִֽים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Job 3:21 | 1 |
| מַטְמֹנִים֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 41:8 | 1 |
| מַטְמוֹן֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 43:23 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 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
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.
