Treasury
Treasury
(usually , otsar, a collection, often rendered treasure; sometimes Heb. , genazain [Est 3:9; Est 4:1], or Chald. , ginzin [Ezr 5:17; Ezr 6:1; Ezr 7:20, treasure-house], a store or deposit). SEE ASUPPIM. In 1Ch 28:11, the treasury of the Temple is called , ganzak; and means substantially the same as the of Mat 27:6, namely, the hoard of money contributed towards the expenses of that edifice. The same thing, or perhaps rather the place where the contribution-boxes for this purpose were kept, is designated in the New Test. as the (Mar 12:41; Luk 21:1; Joh 8:20), and so likewise Josephus (Ant. 19:6,1; War, 5, 5, 2), after the Sept. (Neh 10:37; Neh 13:4-5; Neh 13:8; Est 3:9). According to the rabbins this treasury was in the court of the women, where stood thirteen chests called trumpets from their form or funnel-shaped mouth, into which the Jews cast their offerings (comp. Exo 30:13 sq.). SEE TEMPLE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Treasury
(Matt. 27:6; Mark 12:41; John 8:20). It does not appear that there was a separate building so called. The name was given to the thirteen brazen chests, called “trumpets,” from the form of the opening into which the offerings of the temple worshippers were put. These stood in the outer “court of the women.” “Nine chests were for the appointed money-tribute and for the sacrifice-tribute, i.e., money-gifts instead of the sacrifices; four chests for freewill-offerings for wood, incense, temple decoration, and burnt-offerings” (Lightfoot’s Hor. Heb.).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Treasury
TREASURY.Two words are trd. treasury in the Gospels.
1. (fr. , a word of Persian origin = , treasure, and , guard), a place for keeping treasure, i.e. either a treasure-chest or a treasure-chamber (Mar 12:41; Mar 12:43 || Luk 21:1, Joh 8:20). (1) In the two Synoptic passages it is used, in connexion with the incident of the poor widow who gave her two mites, to denote a treasure-chest, or receptacle into which offerings were cast by worshippers coming into the Templea sense in which the word is found also in Josephus (Ant. xix. vi. 1, where Agrippa hangs his chain of gold ). According to the Talmud (Sheqalim, vi. 5), there stood in the court of the women, the most frequented part of the sacred enclosure, 13 brazen chests, into which were dropped the contributions made for the service of the Temple, the support of the poor, and other pious purposes. These chests were of a peculiar shapebulging out beneath so as to be of considerable capacity, but tapering upwards to a narrow mouth, into which the offerings were putand, because of their resemblance to inverted trumpets, were known as shphrth (, trumpets). It was into one of these shphrth that the widow would cast her all. (2) In the Authorized and Revised Versions rendering of Joh 8:20 Jesus is said to have spoken in the treasury ( ), as He taught in the Temple. This rendering would imply that the in question was not a treasure-chest merely, but a part of the Temple itself in which treasure was kept. Now, we know that there were special treasure-chambers within the inner court, in which not only the precious vessels of the sacrificial service and the costly garments of the priests, but vast sums of money and various other valuables were kept, and that these treasure-chambers, which were under the charge of officers known as , were called (Neh 10:37 LXX Septuagint ; Josephus BJ vi. v. 2). That Jesus would be found teaching in one of these inner treasure-chambers is, however, exceedingly improbable. And when we put such a supposition aside, two views may be taken of the meaning of . (a) We may take to denote, as in the Synoptics, nothing more than a treasure-chest, and understand to be used in the sense of proximity merely (so Meyer; cf. [Rom 8:34 and frequently], at the right hand of God), so that the phrase would signify at or near the treasury. (b) We may take in its strict local sense (so Winer, Gram. of NT Gr. 481), and then understand to denote that part of the Womens Court in which the treasure-chests were kept. But in either case the general meaning will be the same. Jesus was not in some closely guarded chamber of the inner Temple, but sitting near the shphrth, or in the colonnade where the shphrth stood.
2. (fr. ; see Corban) occurs in NT only in Mat 27:6, where it denotes the sacred treasury of the Temple. Into this treasury the chief priests would not put Judas thirty pieces of silver, because it is the price of blood. In Josephus (BJ ii. ix. 4) the word is used not of the Temple treasury, but of the treasures it contained. Herod is said to have created a disturbance in Jerusalem by expending upon aqueducts that sacred treasure which is called corbanas ( , ).
It may be added that, although in Authorized and Revised Versions is invariably rendered treasure, it is occasionally used in a sense that corresponds to treasury or the place where treasure is Kept. In Mat 12:35 || Luk 6:45 it denotes the treasury of the heart; in Mat 13:52 that of the well-provided householder, to whom Jesus likens the scribe who hath been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven.
Literature.The Lexx. and Comm.; Lightfoot, Hor. Heb. p. 536 ff.; Buxtorf, Lex. Talm. [Note: Talmud.] p. 2506; Keim, Jesus of Nazara, v. 192 ff.; Edersheim, LT [Note: T Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah [Edersheim].] ii. 164 f., 387; Schrer, HJP [Note: JP History of the Jewish People.] i. ii. 260 ff.
J. C. Lambert.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Treasury
A part of the temple was called ‘the treasury,’ in which were kept things consecrated to Jehovah, as the gold, silver, and vessels of brass and iron captured from Jericho. Jos 6:19. The free-will offerings of the people were also given in at ‘the treasury.’ Mar 12:41; Mar 12:43. On one occasion the Lord spoke to the people ‘in the treasury, as He taught in the temple,’ doubtless in the outer part where He could watch the people bringing in their gifts. Luk 21:1; Joh 8:20.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Treasury
Treasury. Mar 12:41; Luk 21:1. A name, given by the rabbins to thirteen chests in the Temple, called trumpets from their shape. They stood in the court of the women. It would seem, probable, that this court was sometimes itself called “the treasury,” because it contained these repositories.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Treasury
from gaza, “a treasure,” phulake, “a guard,” is used by Josephus for a special room in the women’s court in the Temple in which gold and silver bullion was kept. This seems to be referred to in Joh 8:20; in Mar 12:41 (twice), Mar 12:43; Luk 21:1 it is used of the trumpet-shaped or ram’s-horn-shaped chests, into which the temple offerings of the people were cast. There were 13 chests, six for such gifts in general, seven for distinct purposes.
signifying “the place of gifts,” denoted the Temple “treasury,” Mat 27:6. See CORBAN.