נֶ֫כֶס
treasure
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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
- 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).
Every verse where H5233 appears in the Book of 2 Chronicles — 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 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 1:11 נְכָסִ֤ים n c mp God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king:
- 2 Chronicles 1:12 וּ/נְכָסִ֤ים conj + n c mp wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the like.
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.
נכס — transliterated nekeç — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “treasure.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. More than a third of its appearances fall in 2 Chronicles. It first appears in Joshua 22:8. Related forms include נכס. 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 H5233 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.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 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 →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 40%
- Ecclesiastes 2 verses 40%
- Joshua 1 verse 20%
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.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 80%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 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: Wealth 4×
- American Standard Version: Wealth 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wealth 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Riches 3×, Possessions 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5233 across 5 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5233 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5233 across 5 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 H5233 across 6 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.
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.
- riches, treasures
Word origin
[ נֶ֫כֶס ] n.m. only pl. riches, treasures
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to accumulate
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.
נָכַס
- (cmp. כָּסַס)
- 1. to cut; to slaughter. Imper. כּוֹס. Pes. 61ᵃ (expl. תכסו, Ex. XII, 4) טלה זה לשון סורסי הוא … כוס לו it is an abbreviated form (v. סוּרְסִי), as one says to his neighbor, kos (for נְכוֹס) &c., cut this lamb for me; Y. ib. V, 32ᵃ bot.; Mekh. Bo. s. 3.—Snh. 82ᵇ (play on כזבי, Num. XXV, 15) שאמרה לאביה כוס בי עם זה she said to her father, cut (ruin) this people through me. Ḥull. 37ᵇ בְּשַׂר כוס כוס meat of an animal about which one says, ‘cut, cut’, i.e. meat of an animal hurriedly cut, because it threatens to die; Treat. Kuthim (ed. Kirchh., p. 33, sq.) we must not sell to Samaritans כּוֹסְכּוֹס (sub. בשר) meat of an animal on the point of death. e.g. Exodus 12:4
- 2. to mark, count, v. נְכָסִים.
נְכַס
- ch. same; impf. יִכּוֹס. Targ. Gen. XXXI, 54. Ib. O. XXII, 10 למִיכַּס ed. Berl. (oth. ed. a. Y. למֵיכַס); a. fr.—Snh. 25ᵇ bot. והאידנא נ׳ אבא וכ׳ and presently he will slaughter the father for the son and the son for the father (he will exercise extortions). Y. Shebi. V, end, 36ᵃ מִיכּוֹס תורא וכ׳ to slaughter an ox available for the plough; a. fr.
- , אִינְּכֵיס to be slaughtered. Targ. Lev. XIX, 6; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 33 אזל למִתְנַכְסָה וכ׳ was going to be slaughtered, and it lowed, as if to say, save me; Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵃ מִינְּכֵיס; Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵇ מִנְּכִס taken to be slaughtered.
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 H5233 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּ/נְכָסִ֨ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Joshua 22:8 | 1 |
| וּ/נְכָסִ֜ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 5:19 | 1 |
| וּ/נְכָסִ֤ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 1:12 | 1 |
| וּ/נְכָסִ֨ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ecclesiastes 6:2 | 1 |
| נְכָסִ֤ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 1:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5233, 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.
Derived from this word
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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.
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