UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: ταμεῖον; -ου

Related lemmas: ταμιεύω

Sense 1: inner room

Semantic entry: 7.28

Semantic domains: Constructions

Subdomains: Parts and Areas of Buildings

Definition: a room in the interior of a house, normally without windows opening to the outside

Notes: In OET LUK 12:3 the emphasis is upon the strictly private location of the inner room. In such a context one may translate ‘a strictly private room’ or ‘a small room in the center of the house.’

Further resources: realia:3.1.6.6

Show passage in OET: MAT 6:6

OET-RV MAT 6:6

6 Instead, when you pray, go into a private room and shut the door, then pray to your father who’s not visible to you. Then your father who sees everything will reward you.

OET-LV MAT 6:6

6 But you whenever you _may _be _praying, come _in into the private _room of _you and having _shut the door of _you, pray to _the father of _you, who is in the secret, and the father of _you, the one seeing in the secret, will _be _giving _back to _you.

Show passage in OET: MAT 24:26

OET-RV MAT 24:26

26 “So if they tell you apprentices, ‘Look, he’s out in the wilderness,’ don’t go out there, or if they say, ‘He’s here in these private rooms,’ don’t believe it,

OET-LV MAT 24:26

26 Therefore if they _may _say to _you _all:
Behold, he _is in the wilderness, you _all _may_ not _come _out.
Or _see, in the private _rooms, you _all _may_ not _believe it.

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All 3 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 6:6 · OET MAT 24:26

LUK: OET LUK 12:3

Sense 2: storeroom, treasure room

Semantic entry: 7.32

Semantic domains: Constructions

Subdomains: Parts and Areas of Buildings

Definition: a room for the storage of valuables

Notes: ταμεῖον[b] and θησαυρός[a] may often be rendered by descriptive phrases, for example, ‘a room where valuable things are kept’ or ‘a place where valuables are stored.’|In OET MAT 12:35 θησαυρός[a] is used figuratively (ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἄνθρωπος ἐκ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ θησαυροῦ ἐκβάλλει ἀγαθά ‘a good man draws good things from his good storehouse,’ meaning ‘… storehouse of good things’) to describe the heart as a kind of storehouse or treasure.

Further resources: realia:3.12

Show passage in OET: LUK 12:24

OET-RV LUK 12:24

24 Look at the ravens. They don’t plant seeds or harvest crops and they have no storerooms or barns, yet God keeps them fed, and humans are worth a lot more than birds.

OET-LV LUK 12:24

24 Observe the ravens, because they _are_ not _sowing nor are _they _reaping, to _which not is a_storeroom nor barn, and the god is _feeding them.
For/Because _how _much more you _all are _carrying _value than the birds.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ταμεῖον

Form 1

Sense 1: inner room

Sense 2: storeroom, treasure room