ἀποθήκας, [4 verses] (noun pl fem acc) "Barns" is apotheke, which means "any place wherein to lay up a thing", "magazine", "storehouse", "burial-place", "refuge", "anything laid by", "store," and "store of favor."   Its root (theke) means a "storage chest" or "tomb."   - The word translated as "barns" generally means any storage area, basically a storehouse as opposed to a storeroom, since Jesus uses another word for that idea. It root is a word that means "storage chest" and "tomb."