Topical Bible: Stored

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The concept of "stored" in the Bible often relates to the themes of provision, wisdom, and the prudent management of resources. The act of storing is frequently associated with God's provision and the wise stewardship of His blessings.

Old Testament References

In the Old Testament, the idea of storing is prominently featured in the narrative of Joseph in Egypt. Joseph, endowed with wisdom from God, interprets Pharaoh's dreams and advises the storage of grain during the seven years of abundance to prepare for the subsequent seven years of famine. Genesis 41:48-49 states, "During those seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully. So Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it." This account highlights the importance of foresight and preparation, as well as God's providential care through human agency.

Proverbs also speaks to the wisdom of storing resources. Proverbs 6:6-8 uses the example of the ant: "Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways and be wise. Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food at harvest." This passage underscores the virtue of diligence and the prudent management of resources.

New Testament References

In the New Testament, Jesus addresses the concept of storing in the context of spiritual priorities. In the Sermon on the Mount, He teaches about the futility of storing earthly treasures at the expense of heavenly ones. Matthew 6:19-20 records Jesus' words: "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal." Here, the focus shifts from material wealth to spiritual wealth, emphasizing the eternal value of heavenly treasures.

The Apostle Paul also touches on the theme of storing in his epistles. In 1 Timothy 6:18-19 , he instructs the wealthy to "do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life." Paul echoes Jesus' teaching, encouraging believers to invest in eternal riches through acts of generosity and kindness.

Theological Implications

Theologically, the concept of storing in the Bible reflects God's character as a provider and the call for His people to be wise stewards of His gifts. It challenges believers to balance the responsible management of earthly resources with the pursuit of spiritual wealth. The biblical narrative consistently points to the transient nature of material possessions and the enduring value of spiritual investments.

In summary, the biblical theme of storing encompasses both practical wisdom and spiritual insight, urging believers to prepare wisely for the future while prioritizing eternal values.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Store.

2. (a.) Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity.

Greek

606. apokeimai -- to be laid away, be laid up in store
... up in store. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: apokeimai Phonetic Spelling:
(ap-ok'-i-mahee) Short Definition: I have been put away, am stored, am reserved ...
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2343. thesaurizo -- to lay up, store up
... Word Origin from thesauros Definition to lay up, store up NASB Word Usage reserved
(1), save (2), store (2), stored up...treasure (1), stores up treasure (1 ...
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614. apokruphos -- hidden
... Adjective Transliteration: apokruphos Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ok'-roo-fos) Short
Definition: hidden away, secret Definition: hidden away, secret, stored up. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6845. tsaphan -- to hide, treasure up
... 6844, 6845. tsaphan. 6846 . to hide, treasure up. Transliteration: tsaphan
Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-fan') Short Definition: stored. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6486. pequddah -- oversight, mustering, visitation, store
... 1), executioners (1), fate (1), muster (2), office (1), officers (1), offices (3),
oversight (2), prison* (1), punishment (11), responsibility (2), stored (1). ...
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5669. abur -- produce, yield
... old corn. The same as abuwr; passed, ie Kept over; used only of stored grain --
old corn. see HEBREW abuwr. 5668, 5669. abur. 5670 . Strong's Numbers.
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686. atsar -- to lay up, store up
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to lay up, store up NASB Word Usage
appointed (1), hoard (1), laid up in store (2), stored (1). ...
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7409. rekesh -- steeds
... From rakash; a relay of animals on a post-route (as stored up for that purpose);
by implication, a courser -- dromedary, mule, swift beast. see HEBREW rakash. ...
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5182. necheth -- to descend
... Word Origin (Aramaic) corresponding to nacheth Definition to descend NASB Word Usage
deposed (1), deposit (1), descended (1), descending (1), put (1), stored (1 ...
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6651. tsabar -- to heap up
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to heap up NASB Word Usage amasses
(1), heap (1), piled (2), piles (1), store (1), stored (1). ...
/hebrew/6651.htm - 6k

Library

Daily Bread.
... Once more the Father, the Feeder, has given bread to strengthen man's heart, and
we turn from the corn stored in the garner, to God's own garner the Church ...
/.../the life of duty a years plain sermons v 2/sermon lxii daily bread.htm

I Will Pass Then Beyond this Power of My Nature Also...
... There is stored up, whatsoever besides we think, either by enlarging or diminishing,
or any other way varying those things which the sense hath come to; and ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter viii i will pass.htm

The Building of the Golden House.
... David gave Solomon all the plans and patterns for the house of the Lord, as the
Lord had given them to him; also the gold and silver stored up for time of ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxvi the building of.htm

Missing the Master's Meaning.
... Two millions stored up in a home, while many millions of men have lived and died
in ignorance of the light and peace that comes with Jesus! ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks with world winners/missing the masters meaning.htm

December 23. "Out of the Spoils Won in Battles, did they Dedicate ...
... xxvi.27). Physical force is stored in the bowels of the earth, in the coal mines,
which came from the fiery heat that burned up great forests in ancient ages. ...
/.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /december 23 out of the.htm

The Conversion of S. Paul
... A drop of water"for love's sake. In Heaven, be sure, is stored.'. O by those gentle
tones and dear,. ... Still may the echo of that sound. Be in our memory stored: ...
/.../palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/cclxxxiv the conversion of s.htm

Ignorance and Error.
... For the ignorant man seems to me to be like a man who does not wish to set out for
a richly stored city, through his not knowing the excellent things that are ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter ii ignorance and error.htm

M. Ancient Hymns. Thrice Holy.
... 1 "Lord, Thy glory fills the heaven; Earth is with its fulness stored; Unto Thee
be glory given, Holy, holy, holy Lord!" Heaven is still with anthems ringing ...
/.../various/book of hymns for public and private devotion/47 8 & 7s m.htm

Round the Lord in Glory Seated
... "Lord, thy glory fills the heaven,. Earth is with thy fullness stored; ... "Lord,
thy glory fills the heaven,. Earth is with thy fullness stored; ...
/.../trinity sunday 207 round the.htm

We Ought not to Allow the Idea of Profit to Get Hold of Us. ...
... I have stored it anxiously, saved it faithfully, and guarded it with care. ...
For then the interest of the stored-up crops grows higher. ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter vi we ought not.htm

Thesaurus

Stored (55 Occurrences)
... 1. (imp. & pp) of Store. 2. (a.) Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as,
stored electricity. Multi-Version Concordance Stored (55 Occurrences). ...
/s/stored.htm - 23k

Stored-up (2 Occurrences)
Stored-up. Stored, Stored-up. Storehouse . Multi-Version Concordance
Stored-up (2 Occurrences). 1 Samuel 1:16 Do not ...
/s/stored-up.htm - 6k

Store (134 Occurrences)
... Luke 6:45 A good man from the good stored up in his heart brings out what is good;
and an evil man from the evil stored up brings out what is evil; for from ...
/s/store.htm - 39k

Stores (53 Occurrences)
... Nehemiah 12:44 And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things
which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first ...
/s/stores.htm - 22k

Overflow (43 Occurrences)
... Luke 6:45 A good man from the good stored up in his heart brings out what is good;
and an evil man from the evil stored up brings out what is evil; for from ...
/o/overflow.htm - 19k

Treasurer (6 Occurrences)
... somewhat distinct meanings as expressed in the words: "treasure," genaz (Aramaic)
or genez (Hebrew), usually meaning "the thing stored"; translated "treasures ...
/t/treasurer.htm - 17k

Treasury (25 Occurrences)
... somewhat distinct meanings as expressed in the words: "treasure," genaz (Aramaic)
or genez (Hebrew), usually meaning "the thing stored"; translated "treasures ...
/t/treasury.htm - 27k

Body-covers (25 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 14:26 And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and
from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made. ...
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Armory (5 Occurrences)
... ar'-mer-i: (1) ('otsar; thesauros): A storehouse (1 Kings 7:51 Nehemiah 10:38),
but employed figuratively of the stored-up anger of Yahweh which breaks forth ...
/a/armory.htm - 9k

Honey (62 Occurrences)
... (5.) "Wild honey" (Matthew 3:4) may have been the vegetable honey distilled from
trees, but rather was honey stored by bees in rocks or in trees (Deuteronomy 32 ...
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Resources

What is the treasury of merit? | GotQuestions.org

What does it mean that God looks at the heart (1 Samuel 16:7)? | GotQuestions.org

Is it true that life and death are in the power of the tongue? | GotQuestions.org

Stored: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Stored (55 Occurrences)

Matthew 12:35
The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.
(See NIV)

Luke 6:45
A good man from the good stored up in his heart brings out what is good; and an evil man from the evil stored up brings out what is evil; for from the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
(WEY NIV)

Luke 12:33
Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.
(BBE)

Luke 12:34
For where your wealth is stored, there also will your heart be.
(WEY)

John 8:20
Jesus said these words in the place where the offerings were stored, while he was teaching in the Temple: but no man took him because his time was still to come.
(BBE)

Philippians 1:19
For I am conscious that this will be for my salvation, through your prayer and the giving out of the stored wealth of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
(BBE)

Colossians 1:5
Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,
(See NIV)

Colossians 2:3
In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.
(WEY)

2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
(WEB)

James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
(See NAS)

2 Peter 3:7
But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
(WEB WEY ASV RSV)

Revelation 3:17
You say, I am rich, and have wealth stored up, and I stand in need of nothing; and you do not know that if there is a wretched creature it is *you* -- pitiable, poor, blind, naked.
(WEY)

Genesis 41:48
And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.
(BBE RSV NIV)

Genesis 41:49
So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 11:36
But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean.
(BBE)

Numbers 17:4
And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front of the ark of witness where I come to you.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 3:7
But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 6:11
And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;
(BBE)

1 Kings 7:51
So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of the Lord.
(See RSV)

1 Kings 14:26
And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.
(BBE)

1 Kings 15:18
Then Asa took all the silver and gold which was still stored in the Lord's house, and in the king's house, and sent them, in the care of his servants, to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Rezon, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,
(BBE)

2 Kings 5:24
When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.
(WEB)

2 Kings 20:17
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
(See RSV NIV)

2 Kings 24:13
And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
(BBE)

1 Chronicles 27:27
Shimei the Ramathite was responsible for the vine-gardens; Zabdi the Shiphmite was responsible for the produce of the vine-gardens and for all the stores of wine;
(See NAS)

2 Chronicles 5:1
So all the work which Solomon did for the house of the Lord was complete. And Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of God.
(See RSV)

2 Chronicles 12:9
So Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away all the stored wealth of the house of the Lord and the king's house: he took everything away, and with the rest the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 36:18
And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the stored wealth of the Lord's house and the wealth of the king and his chiefs, he took away to Babylon.
(BBE)

Ezra 6:1
Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where the things of value were stored up in Babylon.
(BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 12:44
And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.
(BBE)

Job 15:20
The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
(BBE NAS NIV)

Job 20:26
All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
(BBE)

Job 21:19
You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!
(BBE)

Job 22:22
Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
(BBE)

Job 23:12
I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
(BBE)

Job 24:1
Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?
(BBE NAS)

Job 36:13
Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.
(BBE)

Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
(See RSV)

Psalms 31:19
O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!
(See NAS NIV)

Psalms 147:8
By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.
(BBE)

Proverbs 2:7
He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
(BBE)

Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
(BBE)

Proverbs 10:14
Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.
(BBE)

Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
(WEB BBE NAS NIV)

Proverbs 26:24
With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;
(BBE)

Song of Songs 7:13
The mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.
(WEB NIV)

Isaiah 15:7
Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.
(WEB NAS NIV)

Isaiah 22:9
And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 23:18
And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.
(BBE YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 25:6
And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.
(BBE)

Isaiah 39:6
'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says Yahweh.
(WEB RSV NIV)

Isaiah 45:3
And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.
(See NIV)

Hosea 13:12
The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.
(WEB NAS NIV)

Nahum 2:12
Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.
(BBE)

Zephaniah 1:12
And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.
(BBE)

Subtopics

Stored

Related Terms

Stored (55 Occurrences)

Store (134 Occurrences)

Overflow (43 Occurrences)

Stores (53 Occurrences)

Storehouse (12 Occurrences)

Record (71 Occurrences)

Vine-gardens (41 Occurrences)

Ungodly (41 Occurrences)

Longed (24 Occurrences)