Bible word study

Tameion (Strong’s G5009): Meaning in the Bible

Tameion (ταμεῖον) is the Greek word numbered G5009 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a dispensary or magazine, i.e. a chamber on the ground-floor or interior of an Oriental house (generally used for storage or privacy, a spot for retirement). In the King James Bible it is translated secret chamber, closet, storehouse..

• Original wordταμεῖον
• Transliterationtameîon
• Pronunciationtam-i'-on
• Strong’s numberG5009
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. neuter contraction of a presumed derivative of (a dispenser or distributor; akin to , to cut);

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Tameion appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Tameion (G5009) stands behind 4 English renderings in 4 verses across 2 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Matthew (2), Luke (2).

How the King James Bible renders Tameion, by count

• closet1 of 4 (25 percent)
• closets1 of 4 (25 percent)
• storehouse1 of 4 (25 percent)
• the secret chambers1 of 4 (25 percent)

Three places to read Tameion

• Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
• Matthew 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
• Luke 12:3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Tameion in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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