Thing

Treasury, strongroom

Human-made Things in the Bible

The treasury was a place for storing valuables belonging to a king or other national authorities. The Temple in Jerusalem had its own treasury. There was no standard size or structure of a treasury.

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

אֲרוֹן ’aron · 5 verses
בַּיִת, אָסֹף (beyth) ’asupim · 2 verses
בַּיִת, אוֹצָר (beyth) ’otsar · 36 verses
בַּיִת, נְכֹאת beth nkoth · 2 verses
גְּנַז gnaz · 1 verse
גֶּנֶז genez · 2 verses
גַּנְזַךְ ganzak · 1 verse
γαζοφυλάκιον gazofulakion · 17 verses
θησαυρός thēsauros · 2 verses
κορβανᾶς korbanas · 1 verse
ταμιεῖον tamieion · 1 verse
θησαυρός thesaurus · 1 verse

Also in Jewish Temple

Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema