GARNER.Garner, which is now archaic if not obsolete, and granary, the form now in use, both come from Lat. granaria, a storehouse for grain. RV [Note: Revised Version.] retains the subst. in all its occurrences in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , and introduces the verb in Isa_62:9 They that have garnered (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] gathered) it shall eat it.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
gar?nẽr (מזוּ, māzū; ἀποθήκη, apothḗkē): ?Garners,? derived from zāwāh, ?to gather,? occurs in Psa_144:13; 'ōcār is similarly translated in Joe_1:17. In the New Testament apothēkē is twice translated ?garner? (Mat_3:12; Luk_3:17). The same word is translated ?barns? in Mat_6:26; Mat_13:30; Luk_12:18, Luk_12:24.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Garner
is the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of the following words: אוֹצָר, otsar', a treasure, as it is usually rendered, a store or stock of goods laid up, hence the place where they are deposited (Joe_1:17; "treasury," 2Ch_32:27); מֶזֶו, me'zev (Sept. ταμεῖον), a cell or store-room (Psalm cxliv. 13); ἀποθήκη, a repository-or place for storing away anything, especially a granary (Mat_3:12; Luk_3:17; elsewhere "barn"). SEE BARN. Cisterns (q.v.) are often used for this purpose in the East (Thomson, Land and Book, 2:262 sq.). The structures of the ancient Egyptians for the storage of grain were above ground, and of great importance in so eminently a grain-growing country. SEE AGRICULTURE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.