--- title: אוֹצָר — treasure · The Tanakh dictionary description: אוֹצָר (214), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 79 times: treasure. BDB 1906: n.m. treasure, store, treasury, storehouse. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/214.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-2.md)‎ / אוֹצָר‎ # אוֹצָר «אוֹצָר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **treasure** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 79 times · **Key:** 214 · **BDB:** אוֹצָר ### Glosses storehouses (12); the.treasures (11); the.storehouses (9) ### Meaning (OSHB) treasure [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/214/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. treasure, store, treasury, storehouse [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/214/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 15:16 treasure, store, treasury, storehouse (so Aramaic, also ܐܰܘܨܪܳܐ )—אוֹצָר Pr 15:16 +; cstr. אוֹצַר Jos 6:19 +; sf. אוֹצָרוֹ Dt 28:12 + 2 times; pl. אֹצָרוֹת Jo 1:17 +; אוֹצָרוֹת Pr 21:6 +; cstr. אוֹצְרוֹת Pr 10:2 +; אֹצְרוֹת Jb 38:22 +; pl. sf. אוֹצְרֹתָֽי׃ Dt 32:34 Is 39:4; אוֹצְרֹתָֽי׃ Dt 32:34; אוֹצְרוֹתֶיךָ Je 17:3; אוֹצְרוֹתָם Is 30:6; אֹצְרֹתֵיהֶם Pr 8:21, etc.— treasure(s), gen. pl. (gold, silver, costly utensils, etc.) Jos 6:19, 24; Is 2:7; 30:6; 45:3 (א׳ חֹשֶׁךְ, i.e. concealed, hoarded) Ho 13:15; Je 15:13; 17:3; 20:5; 48:7; 49:4; 51:13; 1 K 14:26(×2) 2 K 24:13(×2), perhaps also Is 39:2, 4 = 2 K 20:13, 15; wealth Pr 15:16; 21:6, 20; gathered for temple-building (sg.) א׳ בֵּית י׳ 1 Ch 29:8, א׳ הַמְּלָאכָה Ezr 2:69 = Ne 7:71(70), also v 70(69) (cf. 1 Ch 26:27). store, supply of food, drink, etc., 2 Ch 11:11; 1 Ch 27:27, 28; fig. א׳ רֶשַׁע Mi 6:10 Pr 10:2; יִרְאַת י׳ הִיא אוֹצָרוֹ Is 33:6. בֵּית אוֹצָר treasure-house Ne 10:39 cf. Dn 1:2; storehouse, magazine Mal 3:10; \& without בית treasure-house or chamber, treasury 1 K 7:51; 15:18(×2) 2 K 12:19; 14:14; 16:8; 18:15 Je 38:11; 50:37 (?) 1 Ch 9:26; 26:20(×2), 22, 24, 26; 28:12(×2) 2 Ch 5:1; 16:2 (?) 32:27 cf. Ez 28:4; storehouse Jo 1:17 Pr 8:21 1 Ch 27:25(×2) Ne 13:12, 13; magazine of weapons, fig. of Yahweh’s armoury Je 50:25; storehouses of God for rain, snow, hail, wind, sea Dt 28:12; Jb 38:22(×2) Je 10:13; 51:16 ψ 135:7; 33:7. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 65 of its verses cited, 4 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «אוֹצָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/214/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Job 38:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.22/) הֲ֭בָאתָ אֶל־אֹצְר֣וֹת שָׁ֑לֶג וְאֹצְר֖וֹת בָּרָ֣ד תִּרְאֶֽה׃ *Word for word:* have you.gone? into \[the\].storehouses of.snow and.\[the\] storehouses of.hail have.you.seen? *JPS 1917:* Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail, [Proverbs 8:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.21/) לְהַנְחִ֖יל אֹהֲבַ֥י ׀ יֵ֑שׁ וְאֹצְרֹ֖תֵיהֶ֣ם אֲמַלֵּֽא׃פ *Word for word:* to give.as.an.inheritance \[those who\].love.me substance and treasuries their I.fill *JPS 1917:* That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries. - ← previous: [אוּץ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/213.md) - next →: [אוֹר](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/215.md) - ↑ back to [א](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1488-2.md)