Lexical Definition

‎אוֹצָר‎ ʼôwtsâr (o-tsaw') treasure ^H:N-M
from ‎אָצַר‎

armory, cellar, garner, store(-house), treasure(-house) (-y).

• a depository

1) treasure, storehouse
1a) treasure (gold, silver, etc)
1b) store, supplies of food or drink
1c) treasure-house, treasury
1c1) treasure-house
1c2) storehouse, magazine
1c3) treasury
1c4) magazine of weapons (fig. of God's armoury)
1c5) storehouses (of God for rain, snow, hail, wind, sea)

See Greek: ἀποθήκη · θησαυρός · πλοῦτος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אוֺצָר‎ noun masculine^{Prov 15:16} treasure, store, treasury, storehouse (so Aramaic, also ) — ‎אוֺצָר‎ Prov 15:16 +; construct ‎אוֺצַר‎ Josh 6:19 +; suffix ‎אוֺצָרוֺ‎ Deut 28:12 + 2 t.; plural ‎אוֺצָרוֺת‎ Joel 1:17 +; ‎אֹצָרוֺת‎ Prov 21:6 +; construct ‎אוֺצְרוֺת‎ Mic 6:10 +; ‎אֹצְרוֺת‎ Job 38:22 +; plural suffix ‎אוֺצְרֹתָֽי׃‎ Deut 32:34; Isa 39:4 ‎אֹצְרֹתָֽי׃‎ Deut 32:34 ‎אוֺצְרוֺתֶיךָ‎ Jer 17:3 ‎אוֺצְרֹתָם‎ Isa 30:6 ‎אֹצְרֹתֵיהֶם‎ Prov 8:21, etc. —

1. treasure(s), generally plural (gold, silver, costly utensils, etc.) Josh 6:19; Josh 6:24; Isa 2:7; Isa 30:6; Isa 45:3 (‎חשֶׁח‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎, i.e. concealed, hoarded) Hos 13:15; Jer 15:13; Jer 17:3; Jer 20:5; Jer 48:7; Jer 49:4; Jer 51:13; 1Kgs 14:26 (twice in verse); 2Kgs 24:13 (twice in verse), perhaps also Isa 39:2; Isa 39:4 = 2Kgs 20:13; 2Kgs 20:15 wealth Prov 15:16; Prov 21:6; Prov 21:20 gathered for temple-building (singular) ‎׳‎‎בֵּית י‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ 1Chr 29:8, ‎הַמְּלָאכָה‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Ezra 2:69 = Neh 7:70*, also vNeh 7:69* (compare 1Chr 26:27).

2. store, supply of food, drink, etc., 2Chr 11:11; 1Chr 27:27; 1Chr 27:28 figurative ‎רֶשַׁע‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎ Mic 6:10; Prov 10:2 ‎הִיא אוֺצָרוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎יִרְאַת י‎ Isa 33:6.

3. ‎בֵּית אוֺצָר‎
a. treasure-house Neh 10:39* compare Dan 1:2
b. storehouse, magazine Mal 3:10 & without ‎בית‎
a. treasure-house or chamber, treasury 1Kgs 7:51; 1Kgs 15:18 (twice in verse); 2Kgs 12:19*; 2Kgs 14:14; 2Kgs 16:8; 2Kgs 18:15; 2Kgs 50:37 (?) 1Chr 9:26; 1Chr 26:20 (twice in verse); 1Chr 26:22; 1Chr 26:24; 1Chr 26:26; 1Chr 28:12 (twice in verse); 2Chr 5:1; 2Chr 16:2 (?) 2Chr 32:27 compare Ezek 28:4
b. storehouse Joel 1:17; Prov 8:21; 1Chr 27:25 (twice in verse); Neh 13:12; Neh 13:13
c. magazine of weapons, figurative of Yahweh's armoury Jer 50:25
d. storehouses of God for rain, snow, hail, wind, sea Deut 28:12; Job 38:22 (twice in verse); Jer 10:13; Jer 51:16; Ps 135:7; Ps 33:7.

‎אֶקְדָּח‎ see ‎קדח‎.

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