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# treasurer

«treasurer» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The person in a club, school council, charity or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a treasurer, treasurers)

### meaning for a pupil

The person in a club, school council, charity or organisation who looks after the money, keeps records of what comes in and goes out, and reports on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: An official who kept the king's treasure. Cyrus's treasurer handed back the Temple vessels to the Jews. Interpretation: Tradition reads the return of the Temple vessels as the fulfillment of the prophets' promise that the exiles would go home and rebuild. In the primary lessons: In school councils and clubs, a pupil may be treasurer, counting money from cake sales and keeping accounts. In government, a Treasurer (Australia) or similar official is in charge of the country's money. In maths it links to adding income and subtracting spending. Phrases: «club treasurer», «elected treasurer».

### examples

- even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. (Writings EZR.1.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/#x1)
- Maya was elected treasurer of the school council. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/#x2)
- The treasurer counted the money from the cake sale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/#x3)
- The treasurer said we had £85 left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/#x4)
- Our club treasurer keeps a record of every payment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/#x5)
- In Australia the Treasurer presents the national budget. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/#x6)
- The treasurer showed that we earned £120 and spent £75, leaving £45. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/#x7)
- And forthwith he ordered his grand treasurer, who was present, to send 10,000 gold pieces to Khacan for the purchase of the slave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/#x8)

### note

Countable. From «treasure». Other club jobs: chair (or president), secretary. In maths, a treasurer's balance = money in − money out.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «treasurer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.