ἀποθήκη
apothḗkē · G596 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Thing
- Grain-store, siloStorehouse18 verses
Meanings
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barn, storehouse
Small structure for storing agricultural produce; normally made of stone
ExamplesMatthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Matthew 6:26 “Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?
Luke 3:17 His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
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
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐγώI, we 2
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- καθαιρέωto take down, to bring down, to destroy 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὅςwho, which, that 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 8
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- אוֹצָר ʼôwtsâr · H214 · treasure, storehouse, treasury
- Hebrew אוֹצָר (ʼôwtsâr, H214) serves as the primary LXX source term rendered by Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, G596), both denoting a storage structure for grain or other goods; the Greek term appears in NT contexts (Matthew 3:12, 6:26, 13:30; Luke 3:17, 12:18, 12:24) maintaining this storage-repository sense established in the LXX rendering tradition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Barn, storehouse7.25
- In Matthew 3:12, John the Baptist says the coming One “will gather His wheat into the barn (apothḗkēn), but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire,” naming the structure where harvested grain is kept.
Word family 49 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀποθηκης, ἡ (ἀποτίθημι), a place in which anything is laid by or up; a storehouse,…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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