Word study
Store
5 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: store, stored, stores, storing. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “store” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- מִסְכְּנָה miskenâhmagazinetranslated this way 6 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s H4543Noun · Translated: store 6, made storehouses 1Full study and all 7 verses →
Exodus 1:11 So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
1 Kings 9:19 as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses — whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.
- אָצַר âtsarlay up, store uptranslated this way 4 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s H686Verb · Translated: stored 3, appointed as treasurers 1, store 1Full study and all 5 verses →
2 Kings 20:17 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.
Isaiah 23:18 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.
- פָּקַד pâqadattend to, visit, muster, appointtranslated this way 3 times of its 294 uses · Strong’s H6485Verb · Translated: punish 41, numbered 26, appointed 15, counted 14Full study and all 267 verses →
2 Kings 5:24 When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from the servants and stored them in the house. Then he dismissed the men, and they departed.
Isaiah 10:28 Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
- צָפַן tsâphanhide, treasure uptranslated this way 3 times of its 31 uses · Strong’s H6845Verb · Translated: hide 4, hidden 2, concealed 2, treasured 2Full study and all 30 verses →
Proverbs 2:7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
Hosea 13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
- נָתַן nâthangive, put, settranslated this way 2 times of its 1,957 uses · Strong’s H5414Verb · Translated: give 326, gave 206, given 187, put 135Full study and all 1,785 verses →
Genesis 41:48 During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.
Greek words (New Testament)
- θησαυρίζω thēsaurízōI store up, treasure up, savetranslated this way 4 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s G2343Verb · Translated: store 2Full study and all 8 verses →
Matthew 6:19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Luke 12:21 This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
- θησαυρός thēsaurósa treasure, storetranslated this way 2 times of its 17 uses · Strong’s G2344Noun · Translated: treasure 9, treasures 5, store of treasure 2, storeroom 1Full study and all 16 verses →
Matthew 12:35 The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.
- συνάγω synágōI gather togethertranslated this way 2 times of its 59 uses · Strong’s G4863Verb · Translated: gathered 14, gather 11, assembled 9, met 3Full study and all 59 verses →
Luke 12:17 So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’
Luke 12:18 Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.