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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Cellar:

a subterranean vault (1Ch 27:28), a storehouse. The word is also used to denote the treasury of the temple (1Ki 7:51) and of the king (14:26). The Hebrew word is rendered "garner" in Joe 1:17, and "armoury" in Jer 50:25.

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Cellar:

sel'-er, sel'-ar (krupte; ‘otsar): Krupte is found only in Lu 11:33, and is rendered "cellar" in the Revised Version (British and American); the King James Version has "secret place." In this passage it doubtless means a cellar beneath a house. Etymologically the Greek word means "a covered place," and in classical Greek its usage includes vaults and crypts as well as cellars. It seems evident that it was only the larger houses in Palestine in which cellars were used with any frequency. It is shown by the excavations that in rebuilding a town which was in ruins the old houses were sometimes utilized as cellars for the new. ‘otsar, is rendered cellar only in 1Ch 27:27 f. It is an erroneous rendering, the correct meaning being stores, or supplies, of wine and oil.

Written by George Ricker Berry

Nave's Topical Bible

Cellar: For Wine

1Ch 27:27

Cellar: Oil

1Ch 27:28

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Cellar:

(Eng., "crypt"), "a covered way or vault" (akin to kruptos, "hidden, secret"), is used in Luk 11:33, of lighting a lamp and putting it "in a cellar," RV.
See PLACE, Note (8).