noun · feminine
gazas
Strong’sG1047
treasure
stem gaz-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† γάζα, -ης, ἡ (a Persian word),
[in LXX for גִּנְזִין, II Es 5:17 6:1 7:20, 21, Es 4:7; גִּזְבָּר, II Es 7:21; Is 39:2 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1047 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgad'-zah
a treasure
Fromof foreign origin;
King Jamestreasure.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
treasure, NT+4th c.BC+; ἐκ τῆς βασιλικῆς γ. Refs 1st c.BC+
II large sum of money, Refs 2nd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | gazas | gazais |
| object accusative | gazan | gazain |
| direct address vocative | gazar | gazair |
| of, belonging to genitive | gazau1×γάζης | gazaiu |
| to, for dative | gaza | gazai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
gaza is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
gazau“treasury”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 8:27… Aithiopoiu, hos ate epi pantau tau gazau autau, hos erchatelē proskunarintos eis Ierousalēm,… official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians …