| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium. 2. (n.) To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse. 3. (n.) To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to entrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order. 4. (n.) To lay aside; to rid one's self of. 5. (v. t.) That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river). 6. (n.) A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation. 7. (v. t.) That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something entrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security. 8. (n.) A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor. 9. (v. t.) Money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing. 10. (n.) A place of deposit; a depository. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia DEPOSIT de-poz'-it (paratheke, 1 Timothy 6:20 2 Timothy 1:12, 14 the Revised Version, margin, paraphrased in both the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) into "that which is committed" (see COMMEND)): The noun was used in the classical Greek, just as its English equivalents, for "that which is placed with another for safe keeping," a charge committed to another's hands, consisting often of money or property; compare Exodus 22:7 Leviticus 6:2. This practice was common in days when there were no banks.
(1) In 1 Timothy 6:20; also 2 Timothy 1:14, the reference is to a deposit which God makes with man, and for which man is to give a reckoning. The context shows that this deposit is the Christian faith, "the pattern of sound words" (2 Timothy 1:13), that which is contrasted with the "oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called" (1 Timothy 6:20). "Keep the talent of the Christian faith safe and undiminished" (Vincentius Lirenensis).
(2) In 2 Timothy 1:12, the deposit is one which man makes with God. The key to the meaning of this expression is found probably in Psalm 31:5: "Into thy hand I commend my spirit: Thou hast redeemed me," i.e. "All that I am, with all my interests, have been entrusted to Thy safe keeping, and, therefore, I have no anxieties with respect to the future. The day of reckoning, `that day,' will show how faithful are the hands that hold this trust."
H. E. Jacobs |  | Multi-Version Concordance Deposit (19 Occurrences) Matthew 25:27 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest. (Root in WEB WEY NIV) Luke 12:17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to deposit my fruits? (WBS) Luke 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I deposit all my fruits and my goods. (WBS) Luke 19:23 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?' (WEB NIV) 2 Corinthians 1:22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts. (See NIV) 2 Corinthians 5:5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. (See NIV) 1 Timothy 6:20 O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge, (DBY) 2 Timothy 1:12 For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him. (DBY) 2 Timothy 1:14 Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted. (DBY NIV) Exodus 16:33 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put in it an omer full of manna, and deposit it before Jehovah, to be kept for your generations. (DBY) Leviticus 6:2 "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV) Leviticus 6:4 then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV) Numbers 17:4 You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. (See NAS RSV) Numbers 19:9 And a clean man shall gather the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the assembly of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. (DBY NAS RSV) Deuteronomy 14:28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates: (See NAS) Ezra 5:15 and he said to him, Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place. (See NAS NIV) Ezekiel 24:6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it. (See NIV) Ezekiel 24:11 Then set it empty on its coals, that it may be hot, and its brass may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, that its rust may be consumed. (See NIV) Ezekiel 24:12 She has wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't go forth by fire. (See NIV) |
