אָצַר
a.tsar
“to store”
Definition
to store up
a primitive root;
- to store up, save, lay up 1a) (Qal) to store up, make treasurer 1b) (Niphal) treasured
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
אָצַר appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
“For they know not how to do right,”declares the LORD.“They store up violence and destructionin their citadels.”
Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
I appointed as treasurers over the storerooms Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, to assist them, because they were considered trustworthy. They were responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.
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