אָצַרʼâtsar
lay up, store up
Pronunciation: aw-tsar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H686
Meanings
Qal: store up (2 Kings 20:17; Isaiah 39:6; Amos 3:10)
Niph`al: be stored up (Isaiah 23:18)
Hiph`il: denominative from אוֺצָר (Nehemiah 13:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- 2 Kings 20:17 The time is coming when everything in your palace—all the treasures stored up by your ancestors until now—will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord.
- Nehemiah 13:13 I assigned supervisors for the storerooms: Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah, one of the Levites. And I appointed Hanan son of Zaccur and grandson of Mattaniah as their assistant. These men had an excellent reputation, and it was their job to make honest distributions to their fellow Levites.
- Isaiah 23:18 But in the end her profits will be given to the Lord. Her wealth will not be hoarded but will provide good food and fine clothing for the Lord’s priests.
- Isaiah 39:6 ‘The time is coming when everything in your palace—all the treasures stored up by your ancestors until now—will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.
- Amos 3:10 “My people have forgotten how to do right,” says the Lord. “Their fortresses are filled with wealth taken by theft and violence.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).