noun · neuter
tameiem
Strong’sG5009
a secret chamber
stem tamei-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 6 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.
ταμεῖον
(late syncopated form of cl. ταμιεῖον; v. M, Pr., 44 f.; Bl., § 6, 5; Thackeray, Gr., 63 ff.; Deiss., BS, 182 f.), -ου, τό, [in LXX chiefly for חֶדֶר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5009 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtam-i'-on
akin to τέμνω, to cut); a dispensary or magazine, i.e. a chamber on the ground-floor or interior of an Oriental house (generally used for storage or privacy, a spot for retirement)
Fromneuter contraction of a presumed derivative of ταμίας (a dispenser or distributor;
King Jamessecret chamber, closet, storehouse.
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
treasury, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the Roman aerarium, Refs 2nd c.BC+; the Imperial fiscus, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 magazine, storehouse, Refs 5th c.BC+; store-room, Refs 5th c.BC+; reservoir, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 chamber, closet, LXX+NT+4th c.BC+; also written ταμῖον Refs 1st c.AD+
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 or object direct | tameiem1×ταμεῖον | tameieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | tameieu | tameieiu |
| to, for dative | tameie | tameiei2×ταμείοις |
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
tameie 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
tameiem“storeroom”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Luke 12:24“storeroom”… speralō oude therizalō, hoi ouk atō tameiem oude apothēkas, kai tos theos trefatō …… do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How …
tameiei“inner rooms”to, fordative plural2×
Matthew 24:26… atō, mē exerchaveia; Idou en tei tameiei, mē pisteuaveia;… or, ‘Here He is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
Luke 12:3… pros tem ouem lalava en tei tameiei kērussiti epi teiu dōmeiu.… what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
tameiem1×
Matthew 6:6… de hotan proseuchoseiō, eiserchasar eis tem tameiem su kai kleiarantos tan thuran su …… you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to …