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title: גֶּנֶז — chests · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֶּנֶז (1595), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: chests. BDB 1906: pl. 1.chests treasury. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֶּנֶז

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«גֶּנֶז» in the Tanakh dictionary: **chests** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 1595 · **BDB:** גְּנָזִים

### Glosses

the.treasuries (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

chests [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1595/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pl. 1.chests treasury [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1595/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. 1.chests (?); 2. treasury—only pl. cstr. גִּנְזֵי;— perhaps chests of variegated cloth ג׳ בְּרֹמִים Ez 27:24 so Thes AV RV; Sm Co al. cloths, carpets, Ew Taschen. treasury (NH גֶּנֶז, Aramaic גִּנְזָא, גְּנִיז, Biblical Aramaic cstr. pl. גִּנְזֵי; Pers. loan-word from گَنْجَه treasure? cf. Vullers ii. 1032 Lag Ges Abh. 27); גִּנְזֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ Est 3:9; 4:7.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֶּנֶז» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1595/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Esther 3:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.3.9/)

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אִם־עַל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ ט֔וֹב יִכָּתֵ֖ב לְאַבְּדָ֑ם וַעֲשֶׂ֨רֶת אֲלָפִ֜ים כִּכַּר־כֶּ֗סֶף אֶשְׁקוֹל֙ עַל־יְדֵי֙ עֹשֵׂ֣י הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה לְהָבִ֖יא אֶל־גִּנְזֵ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* if \[is\].on the king good let.it.be.written to destroy them and ten thousand(s) talent\[s\] of.silver I.will.weigh.out on the.hands of.the.doers of the.work to bring.\[it\] into the.treasuries of the.king

*JPS 1917:* If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.'

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[Esther 4:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.4.7/)

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וַיַּגֶּד־ל֣וֹ מָרְדֳּכַ֔י אֵ֖ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר קָרָ֑הוּ וְאֵ֣ת ׀ פָּרָשַׁ֣ת הַכֶּ֗סֶף אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָמַ֤ר הָמָן֙ לִ֠שְׁקוֹל עַל־גִּנְזֵ֥י הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ בַּיְּהוּדִ֖יםלְאַבְּדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.told to him Mordecai (et) all that it had.happened.to.him and (et) the.exact.amount of the.silver which he.had.said Haman to weigh.out to the.treasuries of the.king for the Jews to destroy them

*JPS 1917:* And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.

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