ΓΑΖΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝ, γαζοφυλακιον
GAZOPHYLAKION, gazophylakion
Sounds Like: gah-zoh-foo-LAH-kee-on
Translations: treasury, a treasury, money box, a money box, storehouse, a storehouse
From the root: ΓΑΖΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This is a compound word, formed from 'γάζα' (gaza), meaning 'treasure' or 'royal treasury', and 'φυλακή' (phylake), meaning 'a guard' or 'a keeping place'. It refers to a place where money or valuables are kept, such as a treasury, a storehouse, or a money box. It can be used to describe the temple treasury where offerings were deposited.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G1049 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 19 — 6:294
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Kings — 23:11
- Ezra (Alpha) — 5:44
- Ezra (Beta) — 10:6
- Nehemiah — 10:37, 13:5, 13:7
- Esther — 3:9
- 1 Maccabees — 3:28
- 2 Maccabees — 3:6, 3:24, 3:28, 4:42
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΑΖΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΓΑΖΖΟΦΥΛΑΚΕΙΟΥ — of the treasury, of the temple treasury, of the offering box, of the place for offerings
- ΓΑΖΟΦΥΛΑΚΙ — to a treasury, to a storehouse, to a treasure chamber, a treasury, a storehouse, a treasure chamber
- ΓΑΖΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΑ — treasuries, storehouses, offering boxes, money-chests
- ΓΑΖΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΙΣ — to the treasury, to the treasuries, to the temple treasury, to the temple treasuries
- ΓΑΖΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΥ — of the treasury, of the temple treasury, of the storehouse, of the chest, of the offering box
- ΓΑΖΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΩ — (to) treasury, (to) storehouse, (to) strongroom, (to) chamber, (to) a treasury, (to) a storehouse, (to) a strongroom, (to) a chamber
- ΓΑΖΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΩΝ — of the treasury, of the treasuries, of the temple treasury, of the temple treasuries, of the offering box, of the offering boxes
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