thesaurizo - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2343 — chul (“Hul”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2343 θησαυρίζω (thesaurizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. thesaurizo (thay-sau-rid'-zo) v. 1. to amass or reserve {literally or figuratively} It has 20 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include lay, layeth, treasure, and store. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
thesaurizo (thay-sau-rid'-zo) v. 1. to amass or reserve {literally or figuratively} [from G2344] KJV: lay up (treasure), (keep) in store, (heap) treasure (together, up) Root(s): G2344
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2343. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to store up
Usage: θησαυρίζω [in LXX for צָפַן, etc. ;] to lay up, store up: of riches, Jas.5:3; id. with dative of person(s), Luk.12:21, 2Co.12:14; with accusative of thing(s), 1Co.16:2; θησαυροὺς ἑαυτῷ, Mat.6:19-20; pass., 2Pe.3:7; metaphorically, ὀργὴν ἑαντῷ, Rom.2:5 (cf. Pro.1:18, Pss. Pss.Sol 9:9).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render thesaurizo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2343 (θησαυρίζω) appears 12 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
8 indexed usages in New Testament.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
9 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Behold, the days come, that all things that are in thy house shall be taken, and all that thy fathers have treasured up until this day, to Babylon; and there shall not fail a word which the Lord has spoken.
Surely man walks in a shadow; Nay, he is disquieted in vain: He lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.
For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; And the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Prayer is good with fasting and alms and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold:
Having good will to the king’s affairs, I am come to inform thee that infinite private wealth is laid up in the treasuries of Jerusalem which do not belong to the temple, but pertain to King Seleucus.
they that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2343.
Behold, the days come, that all things that are in thy house shall be taken, and all that thy fathers have treasured up until this day, to Babylon; and there shall not fail a word which the Lord has spoken.
Surely man walks in a shadow; Nay, he is disquieted in vain: He lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.
For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; And the overthrow of transgressors is evil.
And he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: He will protect their way;
And the wealth of ungodly men is laid up for the just.
But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: A foolish man digs up evil for himself, And treasures fire on his own lips.
And she knew not what things would come against her, saith the Lord, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.
Is there not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and that with the pride of unrighteousness?
And Tyre built strongholds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Prayer is good with fasting and alms and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold:
Having good will to the king’s affairs, I am come to inform thee that infinite private wealth is laid up in the treasuries of Jerusalem which do not belong to the temple, but pertain to King Seleucus.
they that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2343, grouped by book.
Strong's G2343 is a Greek entry for G2343 θησαυρίζω (thesaurizo). thesaurizo (thay-sau-rid'-zo) v. 1. to amass or reserve {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's G2343 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2343 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lay, layeth, treasure, and store. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 9 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2343, with linked reader references where each row is available.