ἀποθήκη
apothēkē · barn, storehouse
Greek word · Strong’s number G596 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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apothēkē (ἀποθήκη) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “barn, storehouse”.
Barn, granary, storehouse.
How to say it
a·po·thē·kē
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A building where the harvest is stored.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- barn ×4
- barns ×2
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
- Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the sky: they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?
- Matthew 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the darnel first and tie it in bundles to burn it, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
- Luke 3:17
His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
- Luke 12:18
And he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will gather all my grain and my goods.
- Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens, that they do not sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds!