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      • "treasure," genaz (Aramaic) or genez (Hebrew), usually meaning "the thing stored"; translated "treasures" in Ezra 6:1, but in 5:17 and 7:20 translated "treasure-house": "search made in the king's treasure-house." In Esther 3:9; 4:7 the Hebrew form is translated "treasury," as is ganzakh in 1 Chronicles 28:11.
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  1. Study the definition of Treasure; Treasurer; Treasury with multiple Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias and find scripture references in the Old and New Testaments.

  2. The entire concept of treasure or storehouse in the Bible indicates the monarchial aspect of the culture and economy of the ancient world in that all wealth was concentrated in the king, in the sacred temple, or in the hands of princes or wealthy individuals.

  3. Discover the meaning of Treasury, (Of Temple) in the Bible. Study the definition of Treasury, (Of Temple) with multiple Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias and find scripture references in the Old and New Testaments.

  4. Treasury, ( Mark 12:41; Luke 21:1) a name given by the rabbins to thirteen chests in the temple, called trumpets from their shape. They stood in the court of the women. It would seem probable that this court was sometimes itself called "the treasury" because it contained these repositories.

  5. Deuteronomy 28:12 - The LORD will open his rich treasury, the heavens, to release rain upon your land in season and bless everything you undertake so that you'll lend to many nations but won't borrow.

  6. In the compound gazophulakion, "guarding of gaza," the same word appears and the compound is translated "treasury" in Mark 12:41, 43 parallel Luke 21:1 John 8:20. See TEMPLE; TREASURY (OF TEMPLE). 2. Thesauros: The word thesauros means literally, a "deposit," so wealth and treasure.

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  8. It was here that Jesus saw the poor widow cast in her two mites (Mark 12:41 Luke 21:1-4), and the court is expressly named the "treasury" in John 8:20: "These words spake he in the treasury, as he taught in the temple." It is a legitimate deduction that this court was the ordinary scene of the Lord's ministry when teaching in the temple.