H1596 H1596
treasures, treasuries (Aramaic)—royal or temple treasure houses in Ezra
This Aramaic noun appears only in Ezra, referring to the Persian royal treasuries where official documents and resources were kept. Ezra 5:17 and 6:1 mention 'the house of treasures of the king' in Babylon where archives were searched for Cyrus's decree. Ezra 7:20 authorizes funds 'from the house of the king's treasuries.' The word is the Aramaic equivalent of Hebrew genazim, both possibly derived from Persian. It reflects the administrative machinery of the Persian Empire, with its careful record-keeping and centralized financial control.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Aramaic noun for treasures or treasuries, appearing three times in Ezra in contexts of Persian royal administration. Ezra 5:17 and 6:1 use 'house of treasures of the king' (bet ginzayya di malka) for the archive building in Babylon. Ezra 7:20 uses the construct 'house of the king's treasuries' (bet ginze malka) as the funding source for temple needs. Cross-linguistic glosses show: English 'treasures/treasuries of,' Spanish 'tesoros/tesoros de' (treasures/treasures of), French 'trésors de,' German uses brackets. The emphatic forms (ginzayya) and construct forms (ginze) reflect Aramaic morphology. This is administrative vocabulary for imperial treasure management. 3×
AR["الخَزائِن", "خَزائِن"]·ben["কোষাগার", "রাজকোষ", "রাজকোষের"]·DE["[גנזי]", "[גנזיא]"]·EN["the-treasures", "the-treasuries-of", "treasures"]·FR["[גנזיא]", "trésors-de"]·heb["גנזי", "גנזיא"]·HI["कोषागार", "कोषागार-के", "खजाने"]·ID["perbendaharaan"]·IT["[גנזיא]", "tesori-di"]·jav["kang-ratu", "kas"]·KO["그-보물창고들", "보물들"]·PT["os-tesouros", "tesouros-de"]·RU["сокровищ", "сокровища"]·ES["los-tesoros", "los-tesoros-de", "tesoros"]·SW["hazina", "ya-hazina"]·TR["hazinelerin", "hazinelerinin"]·urd["خزانوں", "خزانوں-کے", "خزانے"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [גְּנַז] n.m. Ezr 6:1 treasure (𝔗; v. BH [גְנָזִים], sub גנז);—pl. emph. גִּנְזַיָּא treasures Ezr 6:1, בֵּית ג׳ דִּי מַלְכָּא 5:17, cstr. בֵּית גִּנְזֵי מַלְכָּא 7:20.