θησαυρός

Matthew 2:11 θησαυροὺς treasures

On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Here: Here the containers more than the contents: chests, caskets or coffers holding valuables. Opening them is part of the ceremony.

Matthew 6:19 θησαυροὺς treasures

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Here: Stored valuables: cloth, coins, precious metal, grain. Together with the verb it makes a ringing echo, 'do not treasure up treasures'.

Matthew 6:20 θησαυροὺς treasures

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Here: Stored wealth: savings set aside for the future. Verb and noun share a root, 'treasure up treasures', which drives the point home by repeating it.

Matthew 6:21 θησαυρός treasure

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Here: Wealth that has been put away and stored: grain, cloth, coins, valuables. It is the noun form of the verb "store up" (thēsaurizō) in verses 19–20, so it means accumulated, kept wealth, not just 'something precious'.

Matthew 12:35 θησαυροῦ θησαυροῦ treasure

The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.

Here: The store or storeroom where a householder keeps his goods. From verse 34 it is clearly the heart, the inner person. It is a stockpile that can hold bad things as easily as good, not 'something precious'.

Matthew 13:44 θησαυρῷ to treasure

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

Here: A stash of valuables such as coins, jewellery or precious vessels, the kind of thing people buried for safekeeping. It also echoes Matthew's repeated language of 'treasure' as what a person's heart is really set on (6:21; 19:21).

Matthew 13:52 θησαυροῦ treasure

Then He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”

Here: The storehouse or strongroom where a household kept its valuables, and also the valuables in it. It echoes the 'treasure hidden in a field' (13:44), which a few verses earlier stood for the kingdom itself.

Matthew 19:21 θησαυρὸν treasure

Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Here: A store of wealth or the place it is kept. Jewish writings already spoke of almsgiving as "storing up treasure" with God. Jesus offers a swap: earthly holdings for wealth that God keeps safe (compare 6:19–21).

Mark 10:21 θησαυρὸν treasure

Jesus looked at him, loved him, and said to him, “There is one thing you lack: Go, sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Here: A stored-up store of wealth. Jesus uses the language of riches to describe what the man will gain: he does not end up poor, he moves his wealth.

Luke 6:45 θησαυροῦ treasure

The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

Here: The place where things are kept, or the stock kept there, not 'precious valuables'. The heart is pictured as a storeroom, and in the next clause it can hold evil just as well.

Luke 12:33 θησαυρὸν a treasure

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Here: Stored wealth, or the place it is kept. It stands in apposition to the bags, restating them: the purses are a treasure kept with God.

Luke 12:34 θησαυρὸς treasure

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Here: Stored-up wealth, or the chest or storeroom where it is kept. In this chapter it means real goods: the rich fool's barns (vv. 16–21) and the possessions to be sold (v. 33).

Luke 18:22 θησαυρὸν treasure

On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Here: A store of wealth. It is a well-known Jewish image: giving to the poor stores up wealth with God.

2 Corinthians 4:7 θησαυρὸν treasure

Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.

Here: Something of great value, kept and guarded. Here it is the light of the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Jesus Christ (v. 6), the gospel entrusted to Paul's ministry (4:1–6).

Colossians 2:3 θησαυροὶ treasures

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Here: The word means both the valuables and the place they are stored, such as a chest, a strongroom or a temple treasury. The plural suggests a whole stock of riches, picking up 'all the riches' in 2:2.

Hebrews 11:26 θησαυρῶν treasures

He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

Here: Plural: stored-up treasures, the contents of royal treasuries. This was the inheritance open to an adopted member of Pharaoh's household.