A depository
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H214 is a Hebrew noun for a treasury, storehouse, depository, granary, armory, or reserved supply. First Chronicles 9:26 describes Levite gatekeepers entrusted with rooms and treasuries in the house of God, connecting stored sacred goods with assigned responsibility.
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H214 is a Hebrew noun for a treasury, storehouse, depository, granary, armory, or reserved supply. First Chronicles 9:26 describes Levite gatekeepers entrusted with rooms and treasuries in the house of God, connecting stored sacred goods with assigned responsibility.
The BSB source-word alignment has 79 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include the treasures (6), in the treasuries (5), - (4), the storehouses (4), the treasuries (4).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Deuteronomy 28:12. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Chronicles (13), Jeremiah (11), 2 Chronicles (10), 2 Kings (8).
H214 is a Hebrew noun for a treasury, storehouse, depository, granary, armory, or reserved supply. First Chronicles 9:26 describes Levite gatekeepers entrusted with rooms and treasuries in the house of God, connecting stored sacred goods with assigned responsibility. Deuteronomy 28:12 portrays the heavens as the Lord's abundant storehouse from which He sends seasonal rain under the covenant blessing.
Micah 6:10 condemns treasures of wickedness and dishonest measures, showing that what fills a store can testify to injustice rather than success. Other passages describe royal wealth, temple gifts, grain reserves, weapons, plundered treasuries, and poetic storehouses of wind, snow, water, or judgment. H214 opens teaching on provision, reserves, stewardship, institutional accountability, and the limits of wealth.
It corrects claims that a full treasury proves divine approval or that biblical storehouse language grants religious leaders unrestricted control over gifts, mandatory access to income, or guaranteed material blessing for donors.
H214 names physical repositories and the goods held within them, ranging from temple and royal treasuries to agricultural storehouses and armories. Poetry also pictures created forces as kept in God's storehouses. Source, contents, custodian, and use determine whether a treasury serves provision, worship, power, or wickedness.
But the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of the house of God.
Four chief Levite gatekeepers receive entrusted responsibility for the rooms and treasuries of God's house.
The Lord will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
Covenant blessing depicts the Lord opening His heavenly storehouse to give rain in season and bless Israel's work.
Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
The Lord exposes wicked treasures accumulated through dishonest measures and refuses to forget the injustice they embody.
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Hebrew word. Secured place where valuables or provisions are stored; emphasizes protection and organized containment
Secured place where valuables or provisions are stored; emphasizes protection and organized containment
a depository BDB: treasure Usage: armory, cellar, garner, store(-house), treasure(-house) (-y).
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אוֹצָר is built from this root:
The proverb critiques the pursuit of wealth gained through injustice.Isaiah 39:1-8
The organized storehouse system ensures ongoing provision for covenant worship.Nehemiah 12:44-47
Represents misplaced confidence in material wealth.Proverbs 10:2
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H214 makes stored abundance morally accountable. First Chronicles does not present temple treasure as ownerless sacred wealth. Named gatekeepers are entrusted with rooms and repositories, indicating custody, access, and responsibility. Other administrative lists assign officers to royal stores, rural supplies, vineyards, and oil. Reserves require people whose work can be examined.
Deuteronomy's heavenly storehouse is covenant poetry for God's seasonal provision of rain, not a mechanism by which donors compel a financial payout. The image magnifies divine generosity while keeping God, not a human collector, in control. Micah exposes a different treasury. Wealth amassed through short measures is called wicked because fraud remains present in the stored result.
A large balance cannot cleanse its means of acquisition. Temple and royal treasuries can also be plundered, spent under threat, or transferred to idolatrous houses, reminding readers that repositories do not guarantee security. H214 supports prudent reserves for worship, food, crisis, and shared work, but it calls for clear purpose and accountable custody. Churches should disclose material uses appropriately, separate duties, protect restricted gifts, and refuse manipulation.
God's abundance is not permission for extravagance, secrecy, or neglect of vulnerable people. What a community stores and how it stores it reveal its loves, fears, justice, and trust.
1Chr.9.26
H214 can name a place of storage or, by association, the treasure and supplies stored there. Translation varies with contents and setting, including treasury, storehouse, granary, cellar, armory, or depository, while poetic texts apply the spatial image to created forces under God's command.
New Testament teaching about treasuries, collections, wealth, generous provision, dishonest gain, and treasure before God continues the canon's concern with what is stored and how it is administered. Those themes should not turn Israel's covenant storehouse promises into guaranteed returns for modern donations.