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ταμεῖον

tameîon · G5009 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

Meanings

  1. inner room

    A room in the interior of a house, normally without windows opening to the outside

    Examples

    Matthew 6:6 “But as for you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

    Matthew 24:26 “So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them.

    Luke 12:3 “Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

  2. storeroom, treasure room

    A room for the storage of valuables

    Examples

    Luke 12:24 “Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Inner room7.28
Jesus teaches, “when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret” (Matthew 6:6).
Storeroom, treasure room7.32
Jesus teaches, “Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them” (Luke 12:24).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (so T WH uniformly), more correctly ταμιεῖον (R G L Tr in Mt 6:6) (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p.…
(so T WH uniformly), more correctly ταμιεῖον (R G L Tr in Mt 6:6) (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 493; Winers Grammar, 94 (90); (Tdf. Proleg., p. 88f)), ταμειου, τό (ταμιεύω), from Thucydides and Xenophon down;
1. a storechamber, storeroom: Lk 12:24 (Deut 28:8; Prov 3:10 (Philo, quod omn. prob. book § 12)).
2. a chamber, especially 'an inner chamber'; a secret room: Mt 6:6; Mt 24:26; Lk 12:3 (Xenophon, Hell. 5, 4, 5; Sir. 29:12; Tobit 7:15, and often in the Sept. for חֶדֶר).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Parts and Areas of Buildings4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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