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Lexicon :: Strong's G5009 - tameion

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ταμεῖον
Transliteration
tameion (Key)
Pronunciation
tam-i'-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Contraction of a presumed derivative of tamias (a dispenser or distributor
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Strong’s Definitions

ταμεῖον tameîon, tam-i'-on; neuter contraction of a presumed derivative of ταμίας tamías (a dispenser or distributor; akin to τέμνω témnō, 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):—secret chamber, closet, storehouse.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G5009 in the following manner: closet (2x), secret chamber (1x), storehouse (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G5009 in the following manner: closet (2x), secret chamber (1x), storehouse (1x).
  1. a storage chamber, storeroom

  2. a chamber esp. an inner chamber

  3. a secret room

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ταμεῖον tameîon, tam-i'-on; neuter contraction of a presumed derivative of ταμίας tamías (a dispenser or distributor; akin to τέμνω témnō, 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):—secret chamber, closet, storehouse.
STRONGS G5009:
ταμεῖον (so T WH uniformly), more correctly ταμιεῖον (R G L Tr in Matthew 6:6) (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 493; Winers Grammar, 94 (90); (Tdf. Proleg., p. 88f)), ταμειου, τό (ταμιεύω), from Thucydides and Xenophon down;
1. a storechamber, storeroom: Luke 12:24 (Deuteronomy 28:8; Proverbs 3:10 (Philo, quod omn. prob. book § 12)).
2. a chamber, especially 'an inner chamber'; a secret room: Matthew 6:6; Matthew 24:26; Luke 12:3 (Xenophon, Hell. 5, 4, 5; Sir. 29:12; Tobit 7:15, and often in the Sept. for חֶדֶר).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
28:8
Proverbs
3:10
Matthew
6:6; 6:6; 24:26
Luke
12:3; 12:24

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5009 matches the Greek ταμεῖον (tameion),
which occurs 35 times in 32 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30 - Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people,[fn] and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:8 - The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 - Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:10 - Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:15 - So Bathsheba went to the king in his chamber (now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending to the king).
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:30 - And the rest fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell upon 27,000 men who were left. Ben-hadad also fled and entered an inner chamber in the city.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:25 - And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:2 - And when you arrive, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. And go in and have him rise from among his fellows, and lead him to an inner chamber.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:2 - But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put[fn] him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus they[fn] hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24 - And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:11 - But Jehoshabeath,[fn] the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him[fn] from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:9 - who made the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:9 - From its chamber comes the whirlwind,
and cold from the scattering winds.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:30 - Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the chambers of their kings.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:13 - may our granaries be full,
providing all kinds of produce;
may our sheep bring forth thousands
and ten thousands in our fields;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:10 - then your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:27 - Her house is the way to Sheol,
going down to the chambers of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:27 - The spirit[fn] of man is the lamp of the LORD,
searching all his innermost parts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 - Blows that wound cleanse away evil;
strokes make clean the innermost parts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:4 - by knowledge the rooms are filled
with all precious and pleasant riches.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:22 - The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into the inner parts of the body.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:20 - Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king,
nor in your bedroom curse the rich,
for a bird of the air will carry your voice,
or some winged creature tell the matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:4 - Draw me after you; let us run.
The king has brought me into his chambers.

Others
We will exult and rejoice in you;
we will extol your love more than wine;
rightly do they love you.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - Scarcely had I passed them
when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go
until I had brought him into my mother’s house,
and into the chamber of her who conceived me.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:2 - I would lead you and bring you
into the house of my mother—
she who used to teach me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
the juice of my pomegranate.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:20 - Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until the fury has passed by.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 - But this is a people plundered and looted;
they are all of them trapped in holes
and hidden in prisons;
they have become plunder with none to rescue,
spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:16 - In the abundance of your trade
you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned;
so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God,
and I destroyed you,[fn] O guardian cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire.
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