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Strong's #1049 - γαζοφυλάκιον
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- a repository of treasure, especially of public treasure, a treasury
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γᾱζο-φῠλάκιον [ λᾰ], τό,
treasury, OGI 225.16 (Didyma, iii B. C.), LXX 2 Kings 23:11, Str. 7.6.1, Luke 21:1, al.
γαζοφυλάκιον, γαζοφυλακίου, τό (from γάζα, which see, and φυλακή; hence, equivalent to θησαυροφυλακιον, Hesychius), a repository of treasure, especially of public treasure, a treasury: Esther 3:9; 1 Esdr. 8:18, 44; 1 Macc. 3:28. In the Sept. used for לִשְׁכָּה and נִשְׁכָּה of apartments constructed in the courts of the temple, in which not only the sacred offerings and things needful for the temple service were kept, but in which also the priests, etc., dwelt: Nehemiah 13:7; Nehemiah 10:37ff; of the sacred treasury, in which not only treasure but also the public records (1 Macc. 14:49; cf. Grimm at the passage) were stored, and the property of widows and orphans was deposited (2 Macc. 3:10; cf. Grimm at the passage): 1 Macc. 14:49; 2 Macc. 3:6, 28, 40 2Macc. 4:42 2Macc. 5:18. Josephus speaks of both γαζοφυλάκια (plural) in the women's court of Herod's temple, b. j. 5, 5, 2; 6, 5, 2; and τό γαζοφυλάκιον, Antiquities 19, 6, 1. In the N. T., in Mark 12:41, 43; Luke 21:1; John 8:20 (ἐν τῷ γαζοφυλακίῳ, at, near, the treasury (yet cf. Winer's Grammar, § 48, a., the passage cited)), τό γαζοφυλάκιον seems to be used of that receptacle mentioned by the rabbis to which were fitted thirteen chests or boxes, שׁופָרות i. e. trumpets, so called from their shape, and into which were put the contributions made voluntarily or paid yearly by the Jews for the service of the temple and the support of the poor; cf. Lightfoot, Horae Hebrew et Talm., p. 536f; Lücke (Tholuck, or Godet) on John 8:20; (B. D. American edition under the word
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† γαζο -φυλάκιον , -ου , τό
(< γάζα , φυλακή ),
[in LXX chiefly for H3957, H5393 (2 Kings 23:11, al.), once for H1595 (Ezra 3:9); τὸ γ ., τὰ . γ ., of a temple treasury, Nehemiah 10:37, 2 Maccabees 3:6, al.;]
treasury: also, apparently, the trumpet-shaped chests into which the peoples' temple-offerings were thrown (DB, iv, 96; DCG, ii, 748): Mark 12:41; Mark 12:43, Luke 21:1, John 8:20.†
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In OGIS 225.16 (iii/B.C.) provision is made that the price of a certain piece of ground should be paid εἰς τὸ κατὰ στρατείαν γαζοφυλάκ [ι ]ον , ";into the military treasury.";
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