גָּנַז [to cut off, set aside,] 1) to save, hoard up, reserve. B. Bath. 11ᵃ; Tosef. Peah IV, 18 אבותיך גָּנְזוּ וכ׳ thy ancestors saved (treasures) and increased the savings of their fathers. Ḥag. 12ᵃ למי גְּנָזוֹ for whom has He reserved it?; a. fr.—Part. pass. גָּנוּז, f. גְּנוּזָה reserved. Pes. 119ᵃ; Snh. 110ᵃ —2) to remove from sight, hide (in order to prevent desecration). Tosef. Sabb. XIII (XIV), 5; Sabb. 116ᵃ. Meg. 26ᵇ a book of the Law in a state of decay גּוֹנְזִין אותו וכ׳ is buried by the side of a scholar; a. fr. —3) to declare a book apocryhal, to suppress, prohibit the reading of. Pes. 56ᵃ ג׳ ספר רפואות suppressed the Book of Remedies. Sabb. 115ᵃ אף הוא צוה עליו וגְנָזוֹ he (R. Gamliel junior), too, gave orders about it and suppressed it; Tosef. ib. XIII (XIV), 3; a. fr.—Sabb. 30ᵇ בקשו חכמים לִגְנוֹז וכ׳ the scholars wanted to suppress (declare uncanonical) the Book of Koheleth; a. fr.
Nif. - נִגְנַז 1) to disappear, be hidden. Yoma 52ᵇ משנ׳ הארון נִגְנְזָה וכ׳ when the Holy Ark was removed, there disappeared with it &c.; Tosef. ib. III (II), 7. Tosef. Sot. II, 2 מגילתה נִגְנֶזֶת וכ׳ the scroll used for the suspected wife (סוטה) was hidden away under the door pivot of the Temple; a. fr. —2) (of books) to be prohibited, suppressed. Sabb. 13ᵇ אלמלא הוא נ׳ וכ׳ but for him, the Book of Ezekiel would have been suppressed; Ḥag. 13ᵃ; Men. 45ᵃ; a. e.