Topic
Treasure; Treasurer; Treasury
71 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 43:23ISBE
And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
- Deuteronomy 28:12ISBE
The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
- Deuteronomy 32:34ISBE
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
- Deuteronomy 33:19ISBE
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
- Joshua 6:19ISBE
But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
- Joshua 6:24ISBE
And 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 the LORD.
- 1 Kings 7:51ISBE
So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 14:26ISBE
And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
- 1 Kings 15:18ISBE
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, 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 Tabrimon, the son…
- 2 Kings 12:18ISBE
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in…
- 2 Kings 14:14ISBE
And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
- 2 Kings 16:8ISBE
And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
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- 2 Kings 18:15 ISBE
- 2 Kings 20:13 ISBE
- 2 Kings 20:15 ISBE
- 2 Kings 24:13 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 9:26 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 28:11 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 28:12 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 29:8 ISBE
- 2 Chronicles 5:1 ISBE
- 2 Chronicles 32:27 ISBE
- Ezra 2:69 ISBE
- Ezra 6:1 ISBE
- Nehemiah 7:70 ISBE
- Nehemiah 7:71 ISBE
- Nehemiah 10:38 ISBE
- Nehemiah 13:12 ISBE
- Nehemiah 13:13 ISBE
- Esther 3:9 ISBE
- Esther 4:7 ISBE
- Job 3:21 ISBE
- Job 38:22 ISBE
- Psalms 17:14 ISBE
- Psalms 135:4 ISBE
- Psalms 135:7 ISBE
- Proverbs 2:4 ISBE
- Proverbs 8:21 ISBE
- Proverbs 15:6 ISBE
- Proverbs 15:16 ISBE
- Proverbs 21:20 ISBE
- Ecclesiastes 2:8 ISBE
- Isaiah 10:13 ISBE
- Isaiah 33:6 ISBE
- Jeremiah 10:13 ISBE
- Jeremiah 38:11 ISBE
- Jeremiah 41:8 ISBE
- Jeremiah 51:16 ISBE
- Ezekiel 22:25 ISBE
- Daniel 1:2 ISBE
- Daniel 11:43 ISBE
- Hosea 13:15 ISBE
- Matthew 6:20 ISBE
- Matthew 6:21 ISBE
- Matthew 12:35 ISBE
- Matthew 13:44 ISBE
- Matthew 13:52 ISBE
- Matthew 19:21 ISBE
- Matthew 27:6 ISBE
- Mark 10:21 ISBE
- Mark 12:41 ISBE
- Mark 12:43 ISBE
- Luke 6:45 ISBE
- Luke 12:21 ISBE
- Luke 12:33 ISBE
- Luke 12:34 ISBE
- Luke 18:22 ISBE
- Luke 21:1 ISBE
- John 8:20 ISBE
- Acts 8:27 ISBE
- Colossians 2:3 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 73 references
trezh'-ur, trezh'-ur-er, trezh'-ur-i (otsar, genaz, genez, ganzakh, chocen matmon, mickenah, mikhman, `athudh, saphan; gaza, thesauros):
I. In the Old Testament.
1. Treasure
The English word "treasure" has in the Old Testament at least five somewhat distinct meanings as expressed in the words: "treasure," genaz (Aramaic) or genez (Hebrew), usually meaning "the thing stored"; translated "treasures" in Ezr 6:1, but in 5:17 and 7:20 translated "treasure-house": "search made in the king's treasure-house." In Es 3:9; 4:7 the Hebrew form is translated "treasury," as is ganzakh in 1Ch 28:11.
2. Storehouse:
"Storehouse," not the thing stored but the place of storage; 'otsar means depository, cellar, garner, armory, store or treasure-house. In several places it ought to be translated by some of these words. It is the most frequent word for treasure. the English Revised Version and the American Standard Revised Version both translate in some instances by other words, e.g. 1Ki 7:51, "treasuries of the house of Yahweh," so also 2Ch 5:1; "treasury" in Ne 7:70,71, "gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold"; in Job 38:22, "treasuries of the snow" (compare Pr 8:21; Jer 10:13; 51:16; Ezr 2:69).
3. Hidden Riches:
"Treasure" or something concealed. There are 3 Hebrew words with this meaning and all in the King James Version translated "treasure." (1) Matmon, which literally means "a secret storehouse" and so a secreted valuable, usually money buried, and so hidden riches of any kind, hid treasures: "treasure in your sacks" (Ge 43:23); "dig for it more than for hid treasures" (Job 3:21); "search for her as for hid treasures" (Pr 2:4); "We have stores hidden in the field, of wheat," etc. (Jer 41:8). (2) Mikhman, treasure as hidden, used only in Da 11:43: "have power over the treasures of gold and silver." (3) Saphan, meaning hidden treasure or valuables concealed: "hidden treasures of the sand" (De 33:19).
4. Strength:
Perhaps the strength of riches and so treasure, the Hebrew word being chocen, from a root meaning to hoard or lay up: "In the house of the righteous is much treasure" (Pr 15:6); "They take treasure and precious things" (Eze 22:25).
5. Something Prepared:
"Something prepared," made ready, the Hebrew word being `athudh, meaning "prepared," "ready," therefore something of value and so treasure: "have robbed their treasures," fortifications or other things "made ready" (Isa 10:13).
In the Old Testament the Hebrew word most often translated "treasure" is 'otsar. It occurs in the sing. as follows: De 28:12; 1Ch 29:8; Ne 10:38; Ps 17:14; 135:4; Pr 15:16; 21:20; Ec 2:8; Isa 33:6; Da 1:2; Ho 13:15; in the pl.: De 32:34; 1Ki 14:26; 15:18; 2Ki 12:18; 14:14; 16:8; 18:15; 20:13,15; 24:13, etc.
The same word is in the King James Version translated "treasuries" in 1Ch 9:26; 28:12; 2Ch 32:27; Ne 13:12,13; Ps 135:7; and "treasury" in Jos 6:19,24; Jer 38:11.
II. In the New Testament.
1. Gaza:
There are two words translated "treasure": Gaza is of Persian origin, meaning "treasure." Found only once in Ac 8:27 concerning the Ethiopian "who was over all her (Queen Candace's) treasure." In the compound gazophulakion, "guarding of gaza," the same word appears and the compound is translated "treasury" in Mr 12:41,43 parallel Lu 21:1; Joh 8:20.
See TEMPLE; TREASURY (OF TEMPLE).
2. Thesauros:
The word thesauros means literally, a "deposit," so wealth and treasure. Evidently throughout the New Testament it has a twofold usage as describing
(1) material treasure, either money or other valuable material possession, and
(2) spiritual treasure, e.g. "like unto treasure hid in a field" (Mt 13:44); "good treasure of the heart" (Mt 12:35).
Other references to material treasure are Mt 6:21; 13:52; Lu 12:21,34, etc. References to spiritual treasure are Mt 19:21; Mr 10:21; Lu 6:45; 12:33; 18:22; plural Mt 6:20; Col 2:3.
In Mt 27:6 the word for "treasury" is korbanas; compare the Revised Version margin.
See CORBAN.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.