tsavar · heap up, store

What it means

tsavar (צָבַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heap up, store”.

Heap up, pile up, store.

How to say it

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

1. To gather things into a pile or a reserve, to use later.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• heaps up ×2
• They piled them up ×1
• he heap up ×1
• heaped up ×1
• store up ×1
• stored up ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 41:35

  Let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, as food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• Genesis 41:49

  Joseph stored up grain like the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

• Exodus 8:14

  They piled them up in heaps, heaps, and the land stank.

• Job 27:16

  Though he heap up silver like dust, and prepare garments like clay,

• Psalms 39:6

  Only as an image does a man walk about; only for vapor are they agitated; he heaps up and does not know who will gather it.

• Habakkuk 1:10

  And it scoffs at kings, and dignitaries are a laughingstock to it; it laughs at every fortress, and heaps up dirt and captures it.

• Zechariah 9:3

  And Tyre built a bulwark for herself, and heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets.