STRONGS NUMBER H5233


Word Summary
nekes: riches, treasures
Original Word: נֶכֶס
Transliteration: nekes
Phonetic Spelling: (neh'-kes)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: riches, treasures
Meaning: riches, treasures
Strong's Concordance
riches, wealth

From an unused root meaning to accumulate; treasure -- riches, wealth.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5233. nekes

[נֶ֫כֶס‎] noun masculineJoshua 22:8 only plural נְכָסִיםriches, treasures (probably Assyrian or Aramaic loan-word, compare Assyrian nikâsu, property, wealth, gain, DlHWB 463, Syriac wealth; on derivation from Assyrian nikâsu, cut off, hew down, behead, etc., Syriac slay, נְכַס ᵑ7‎, Late Hebrew נָכַסid., through meaning cattle for slaughter, compare Frä98 HptHebraica.iii (Jan.1887), 107 ff. SchwIdioticon 120f. Brockad voc.); — 22:8 (P), 2 Chronicles 1:11-12, Ecclesiastes 6:2 (all "" כָּבוֺד עשֶׁר,‎), 5:18 ("" עשֶׁר‎).