Tsavar צָבַר

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Tsavar (Hebrew צָבַר, Strong's H6651) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to heap”. It occurs 7 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) (Qal) to heap up, pile up
1a) of grain, dust, silver

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	up (4), gathered (1), together (1), heap (1)
BSB	he heaps up (2), lay up (1), stored up (1), they were piled (1), build up (1), she has heaped up (1)

Every verse with Tsavar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis 41:35
And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.
Genesis 41:49
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.

Exodus 8:14
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Habakkuk 1:10
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.

Zechariah 9:3
And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).